Spanish Dancers and Musicians

1868/1869

Edgar Degas

Artist, French, 1834 - 1917

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor and pen and black ink on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Woodner Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (arched): 51.4 x 26 cm (20 1/4 x 10 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2000.25.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Lemoisne 1946, no. 173


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Berthe Morisot [1841-1895], Paris, gift from the artist, c. 1869; by descent to Mme. Ernest Rouart [1878-1966], née Julie Manet (Morisot's daughter); Clément Rouart, Paris; (Galerie Hopkins-Thomas, Paris); Ian Woodner Family Collection (sale, New York, Christie's, 5 November 1991, no. 19; unsold); gift to NGA, 2000.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1937

  • Degas, Musée d'Orangerie, Paris, 1937, no. 185.

1952

  • Chefs d'oeuvre des collections parisiennes, Musée Carnavalet, Paris, 1952 - 1953, no. 122.

1955

  • Degas dans les collections françaises, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1955, no. 31, repro.

1984

  • Kompositionen im Halbrund: facherblatter aus vier Jahrhunderten, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart; Museum Bellerive, Zurich, 1984, no. 63, repro.

1988

  • Degas, Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo; Mie Prefecture Museum, Tsu; Daimaru Museum of Art, Osaka; Museum of Art, Okayama; and Nichido Museum of Art, Kasama, 1988 - 1989, no. 19.

1990

  • Woodner Collection Master Drawings, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 116, repro.

2002

  • Degas and the Dance, Detroit Institute of Arts and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2002-2003, plate 46, repro.

2006

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007.

2009

  • Degas and Music, Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY, 2009.

2017

  • The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.

2019

  • Degas at the Opera, Musée d'Orsay, Paris; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019-2020, no. 257, repro.

Bibliography

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.

1953

  • Cooper, Douglas. Pastels by Degas. New York, 1953: 21.

1970

  • Reff, Theodore. "Degas and the Literature of His Time." The Burlington Magazine 112 (1970): 579-580.

  • Minervino, Fiorella, and Franco Russoli. L'opera completa di Degas. Milan, 1970: no. 281.

1974

  • Lassaigne, Jacques, and Fiorella Minervino. Tout l'oeuvre peint de Degas. Paris, 1974: no. 281.

1976

  • Reff, Theodore. Degas: The Artist's Mind. New York and London, 1976: 156-157.

1978

  • Gerstein, Marc Saul. "Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Fans." Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1978: no. 2.

1981

  • Kopplin, Monika. Das Facherblatt von Manet bis Kokoschka, Europeische Traditionene und Japanische Einflusse. Cologne, 1981: 64-68.

1982

  • Gerstein, Marc. "Degas Fans." Art Bulletin 64 (1982): 105-106.

2002

  • DeVonyar, Jill, and Richard Kendall. Degas and the Dance. New York, 2002: 47-48.

Wikidata ID

Q64556395


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