1869, Edgar Degas, Madame Theodore Gobillard (Yves Morisot, 1838-1893) -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: This thinly painted oil sketch is the result of Degas's studies of Yves Gobillard, the married older sister of Berthe Morisot. It enlarges the composition from the squared preparatory drawing by about fifty percent but lacks many of the details that appear in the sketches. Yves's response to the related pastel may have proved prophetic; she wrote that it was "really very pretty, both true to life and delicate.... I doubt that he can transfer it onto the canvas without ruining it." Despite the unfinished state of this work, Degas later chose to exhibit it at the second Impressionist exhibition, in 1876.
1869, Edgar Degas, Madame Theodore Gobillard (Yves Morisot, 1838-1893) -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: This thinly painted oil sketch is the result of Degas's studies of Yves Gobillard, the married older sister of Berthe Morisot. It enlarges the composition from the squared preparatory drawing by about fifty percent but lacks many of the details that appear in the sketches. Yves's response to the related pastel may have proved prophetic; she wrote that it was "really very pretty, both true to life and delicate.... I doubt that he can transfer it onto the canvas without ruining it." Despite the unfinished state of this work, Degas later chose to exhibit it at the second Impressionist exhibition, in 1876.