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Edgar Degas

Ballet Scene, c. 1907

Not on View

Medium

pastel on greenish transparent tracing paper

Dimensions

overall: 76.8 x 111.2 cm (30 1/4 x 43 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Chester Dale Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Lemoisne 1946, no. 1459

Accession Number

1963.10.16

Artists / Makers

Edgar Degas (artist) French, 1834 - 1917

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Inscription

lower left Degas atelier stamp (Lugt 657)

Provenance

Atelier Degas, Vente 1:210; (Jacques Seligmann et Cie, Paris); (sale, New York, Hotel Plaza, 27 January 1921, no. 210); Scott and Fowles, New York (sale, American Art Association, 19 November 1926, no. 41); Chester Dale, New York, 1926; gift to NGA, 1963.

Associated Names

American Art Association
Dale, Chester
Degas, Atelier
Scott & Fowles
Seligmann & Cie., Jacques

Exhibition History

1931: Degas and His Tradition. Museum of French Art, French Institute in the United States, New York, 1931, no. 5.

1984: Degas: The Dancers, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1984-1985, no. 47, repro.

2001: A Century of Drawing, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002, no. 9.

2019: Degas at the Opera, Musée d'Orsay, Paris; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019-2020, no. 182, repro. (shown only in Washington)

Bibliography

1929: Dale, Maud. Before Manet to Modigliani from the Chester Dale Collection. New York, 1929: no. 28, repro.

1946: Lemoisne, Paul André. Degas et son oeuvre. 4 vols. Paris: Arts et metiers graphiques, 1946-1949. Vols. 2 and 3, 1946. Reprinted in 5 vols., New York and London, 1984.

1949: Browse, Lillian. Degas Dancers. London, 1949: 409, pl. 232.

1958: Cabanne, Pierre. Edgar Degas. Paris, 1958: 124.

1965: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 79, repro.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 39.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 32, repro.

1969: Werner, Alfred. Degas Pastels. New York, 1969: 52-53, no. 17.

1970: Minervino, Fiorella. L'Opera Completa di Degas. Milan, 1970: no. 1156.

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 96, repro.

1982: Roosa, Wayne L. "Degas' Photographic Portrait of Renoir and Mallarmé: An Interpretation." Rutgers Art Review 3 (1982): 96, no. 12.

1984: Lemoisne, Paul-André. Degas et son Oeuvre. 5 vols. New York, 1984: 3: 830-831, no. 1459.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 478, no. 707, color repro.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 119, repro.

1988: Boggs, Jean Sutherland, et al. Degas. Exh. cat. Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988, 576, 578-579, fig. 330.

1989: Fletcher, Shelley, and Pia DeSantis. "Degas: the search for his technique continues," The Burlington Magazine 131, no. 1033 (April 1989): 263, 265, fig. 12.

1992: Boggs, Jean Sutherland, and Maheux, Anne. Degas Pastels. New York, 1992, 158, no. 61.

1996: Kendall, Richard. Degas beyond Impressionism. Exh. cat. The National Gallery, London and The Art Institute of Chicago, 1996-1997, 131.

2001: A Century of Drawing. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001: no. 9.

2019: Schulman, Michael.Edgar Degas, Digital Critical Catalogue. MS-455.