Inscription
lower left: Degas
Provenance
Private collection of Paul Durand-Ruel, Paris; sold 1913 to Peter A.B. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; inheritance from Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park; gift 1942 to NGA.
Exhibition History
- 1905
- Pictures by Boudin, Cézanne, Degas, Manet, Monet, Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley, Grafton Galleries, London, 1905, no. 51.
- 1915
- Loan Exhibition of Masterpieces of Old and Modern Painters, M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1915, no. 22.
- 1981
- Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas, San Jose Museum of Art, 1981, no. 66, repro.
- 1984
- Degas: The Dancers, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1984-1985, no. 35, repro.
- 1986
- Capolavori Impressionisti dei Musei Americani, Museo e Gallerie Nazionali di Capodimonte, Naples; Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, 1986-1987, no. 16, repro.
- 1986
- Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, State Hermitage Museum, Leningrad; State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, 1986, no. 9, repro.
- 1988
- Degas, Grand Palais, Paris; National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988-1989, no. 305, repro.
- 1989
- Impressionisti della National Gallery of Art di Washington, Ala Napoleonica e Museo Correr, Venice; Palazzo Reale, Milan, 1989, unnumbered catalogue, repro.
- 1990
- Französische Impressionisten und ihre Wegbereiter aus der National Gallery of Art, Washington und dem Cincinnati Art Museum, Neue Pinakothek, Munich, 1990, no. 18, repro.
- 1992
- From El Greco to Cézanne: Masterpieces of European Painting from the National Gallery of Art, Wasington, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, National Gallery of Greece, Athens, 1992-1993, no. 60, repro.
- 1996
- Degas: Beyond Impressionism, The National Gallery, London; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1996-1997, no. 8, repro.
- 1999
- Around Impressionism: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1999, no cat.
- 1999
- Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 1999, no. 24, repro.
- 2011
- Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2011, no. 45, repro.
- 2014
- Monet, Gauguin, van Gogh...Japanese Inspirations, Museum Folkwang, Essen; Kunsthaus Zürich, 2014-2015, no. 16, repro.
- 2019
- Degas at the Opera, Musée d'Orsay, Paris; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019-2020, no. 196, repro.
Bibliography
- 1915
- Roberts, William. Pictures in the Collection of P.A.B. Widener at Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania: British and Modern French Schools, Philadelphia, 1915: unpaginated, repro., as Le Foyer de la Danse.
- 1923
- Paintings in the Collection of Joseph Widener at Lynnewood Hall. Intro. by Wilhelm R. Valentiner. Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, 1923: unpaginated, repro., as Le Foyer de la Danse.
- 1931
- Paintings in the Collection of Joseph Widener at Lynnewood Hall. Intro. by Wilhelm R. Valentiner. Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, 1931: 212, repro.
- 1948
- Paintings and Sculpture from the Widener Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1948 (reprinted 1959): 108, repro.
- 1963
- Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 325, repro.
- 1965
- Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 38.
- 1968
- National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 32, repro.
- 1975
- European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 96, repro.
- 1984
- Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 478, no. 704, color repro.
- 1985
- European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 118, repro.
- 1990
- Französische Impressionisten und ihre Wegbereiter aus der National Gallery of Art, Washington und dem Cincinnati Art Museum. Exh. cat. Neue Pinakothek, Munich, 1990: no. 18 repro.
- 1991
- Coman, Florence E. Joie de vivre: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1991: no. 11, repro.
- 1991
- Kopper, Philip. America's National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation. New York, 1991: 197, 198, color repro.
- 1998
- Fiero, Gloria K. The Humanistic Tradition: Romanticism, Realism, and the Nineteenth-Century World. Madison, 1998: no. 31.7, repro.
- 2019
- Fargo, Jason. "Degas, (Creepy) Superfan." New York Times 159, no. 58,514 (November 17, 2019): AR-18, color repro.
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