The Green Room

c. 1876/1877

Edgar Degas

Artist, French, 1834 - 1917

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    monotype (black ink) on laid paper mounted by the artist on heavy white wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 16.03 × 11.75 cm (6 5/16 × 4 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 17.78 × 13.4 cm (7 × 5 1/4 in.)
    mount: 28.7 × 22.4 cm (11 5/16 × 8 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1948.11.58

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Janis 1968, no. 229

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Carlton Lake [1915-2006]; (his sale, by Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 28 January 1948, no. 17); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979]; gift to NGA, 1948.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1953

  • Monotypes by French and American Impressionists, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1953.

1955

  • Edgar Degas, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX, 1955, no cat.

  • Monotypes, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 1955.

1956

  • Prints by the French Impressionists from the Rosenwald Collection, NGA, 1956, no catalogue.

1960

  • Loan exhibition of Degas for the benefit of the Citizen's Committee for Children of New York, Inc., Wildenstein and Co., New York, 1960, no. 102.

1965

  • Dedicatory Art Exhibition for the William Cooper Procter Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 1965, no. 25.

1966

  • Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1966, no catalogue.

1968

  • Degas Monotypes, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 1968, no.50, repro.

1971

  • An Impressionist View on Paper - from the Lessing Rosenwald Collection of the National Gallery, Washington, D.C, Art Gallery at the University of Notre Dame, 1971, no. 12.

1979

  • Degas, 1879, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1979.

2008

  • The Dancer: Degas, Forain, and Toulouse-Lautrec, Portland Art Museum, Oregon, 2008, plate 150.

2011

  • Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Tokyo; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, 2011, unnumbered catalogue.

2019

  • Degas at the Opera, Musée d'Orsay, Paris; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019-2020, no. 279, repro.

Bibliography

1968

  • Janis, Eugenia Parry, compiler. Degas Monotypes; essay, catalogue, and checklist. Cambridge: Fogg Art Museum, 1968.

2008

  • Dixon, Annette, et al. The Dancer: Degas, Forain, and Toulouse-Lautrec. Exh. cat. Portland (Oregon) Museum of Art. Portland, 2008: fig. 150.

2010

  • Jones, Kimberly A. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2010.

Inscriptions

lower right, on sheet, in margin outside of plate: Degas [blue-grey signature stamp (Lugt 658)]; on sheet verso, lower left, in graphite: 26941 [encircled]

Markings

lower right, on mount: [red atelier stamp (Lugt 657)]

Watermarks

present (partial) but not identified

Wikidata ID

Q65071942

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