The collection of Baron Denys Cochin
Degas
Woman with a Parasol (In the Tuileries Gardens)
vers 1870-1880 · Canvas, 27 × 20 cm
See in the collectionA woman in black, her face hidden by the parasol she holds in her gloved hand, walking with a companion in the Tuileries or at a racecourse, a small canvas barely covered which Degas nonetheless signed[1]. Pickvance dates it 1870-71 and follows it from the dealer Manzi to Denys Cochin, then to Jules Strauss and to Reid & Lefevre in London, who sold it to Sir William Burrell[2]. It is not in the sale of 1919: Denys Cochin had parted with it in his lifetime[2].
Today: At the Burrell Collection in Glasgow, 35.234, “In the Tuileries Gardens”, about 1880, given by Sir William and Lady Burrell to the city in 1944, in storage[1]. The museum devotes a person record to Baron Denys Cochin for this picture’s history and quotes Vollard there: “he bought for pleasure, he was never mistaken in his choice, all his pictures were of the first order”[3].
Photograph from Wikimedia Commons, “Edgar Germain Hilaire Degas 039.jpg”, The Yorck Project, public domain
Sources (3)
1.Glasgow Museums, collections en ligne, In the Tuileries Gardens, Edgar Degas, vers 1880, Burrell Collection 35.234 : notice, notice.
Reference work · read in full, 7 October 2026 · view ↗
« In the Tuileries Gardens. Edgar Hilaire Germain Degas. Circa 1880. Oil on canvas. Unframed 272 x 204 mm. Here we glimpse a woman, her face shielded by the parasol she holds in her black-gloved hand, walking with a companion. The two women are probably walking in the fashionable Tuileries Gardens, although it is also possible that they are at a race-course. Gifted by Sir William and Lady Burrell to the City of Glasgow, 1944. Burrell Collection: Pictures. ID number 35.234. In storage. »
2.Ronald Pickvance, Degas 1879, Édimbourg, National Gallery of Scotland, 1979, p. 94 : notice de la Femme à l’ombrelle de la Burrell Collection, lue par la recherche plein texte d’Internet Archive, p. 94.
Reference work · partly read (restricted access), 7 October 2026 · view ↗
« If so, a date of 1870-71 seems most probable. Woman with a Parasol (In the Tuileries Gardens). Oil on canvas, 27.3 x 20.3 cm. Signed upper left: Degas. Prov: Manzi, Paris; Denys Cochin, Paris; Jules Strauss; Reid and Lefevre, London; Sir William Burrell. The Burrell Collection, Glasgow. »
3.Glasgow Museums, collections en ligne, notice de personne « Denys-Marie-Pierre-Augustin Cochin, 1851-1922 » : sa place dans l’historique de la Femme à l’ombrelle de Degas, avec le mot de Vollard, notice de personne.
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« Baron Denys-Marie-Pierre-Augustin Cochin is part of the provenance/ownership history of Sir William Burrell’s collection for the work entitled “Woman with a Parasol”, by Edgar Degas. As the art dealer Ambroise Vollard stated, on recalling Cochin’s collection: “Denys Cochin bought for pleasure … he was never mistaken in his choice … all his pictures were of the first order. What an incomparable museum might be created with all that was once in his possession”. »
