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Overview

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Inscription

lower left Degas atelier stamp (Lugt 657)

Marks and Labels

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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.

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.

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
European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, 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, 2001-2002: no. 9.

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