Dancers in the Wings, 1879/1880

Not on View

Medium

etching, aquatint, and drypoint on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 13.9 × 10.3 cm (5 1/2 × 4 1/16 in.)

sheet: 30.5 × 21.8 cm (12 × 8 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Reed/Shapiro 1984, no. 47, State viii/viii

Accession Number

1943.3.3365

Artists / Makers

Edgar Degas (artist) French, 1834 - 1917

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right, outside of plate in margin, signed in graphite: Degas

Provenance

George M. La Monte [1863-1927], Bound Brook, NJ; (his sale, by the American Art Association, New York, 4 April 1928, no. 91); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979]; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

La Monte, George M.
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1956: Prints by the French Impressionists. From the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, NGA, 1956, no catalogue.

1964: Etchings by Edgar Degas, The University of Chicago, 1964, no. 26.

2014: Degas/Cassatt, NGA, 2014, no. 17, repro.

2015: Degas and the Dance, Toledo (Ohio) Museum of Art, 2015-2016.

2018: Innovative Impressions: Prints by Cassatt, Degas, and Pissarro, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, 2018, no. 45, repro.

2019: Degas at the Opera, Musée d'Orsay, Paris; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019-2020, no. 173, repro.

Bibliography

1906: Delteil, Loys. Le peintre-graveur illustre. 31 vols. Paris: Published by the author, 1906-1926. Reprint. New York: Collectors Editions, Da Capo Press, 1969. Vol. 30 (Albert Besnard) is by Louis Godefroy.

1984: Reed, Sue Welsh, and Barbara Stern Shapiro. Edgar Degas: The Painter as Printmaker. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1984: no. 47, State viii/viii.