Dancers in the Wings
1879/1880
Edgar Degas
Artist, French, 1834 - 1917
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching, aquatint, and drypoint on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 13.9 × 10.3 cm (5 1/2 × 4 1/16 in.)
sheet: 30.5 × 21.8 cm (12 × 8 9/16 in.) -
Accession Number
1943.3.3365
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Catalogue Raisonné
Reed/Shapiro 1984, no. 47, State viii/viii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
George M. La Monte [1863-1927], Bound Brook, NJ; (his sale, by the American Art Association, New York, 4 April 1928, no. 91); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979]; gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1956
Prints by the French Impressionists. From the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, NGA, 1956, no catalogue.
1964
Etchings by Edgar Degas, The University of Chicago, 1964, no. 26.
2014
Degas/Cassatt, NGA, 2014, no. 17, repro.
2015
Degas and the Dance, Toledo (Ohio) Museum of Art, 2015-2016.
2018
Innovative Impressions: Prints by Cassatt, Degas, and Pissarro, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, 2018, no. 45, repro.
2019
Degas at the Opera, Musée d'Orsay, Paris; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019-2020, no. 173, repro.
Bibliography
1906
Delteil, Loys. Le peintre-graveur illustre. 31 vols. Paris: Published by the author, 1906-1926. Reprint. New York: Collectors Editions, Da Capo Press, 1969. Vol. 30 (Albert Besnard) is by Louis Godefroy.
1984
Reed, Sue Welsh, and Barbara Stern Shapiro. Edgar Degas: The Painter as Printmaker. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1984: no. 47, State viii/viii.
2019
Loyrette, Henri, editor. Degas at the Opéra. Exh. cat. Musée d'Orsay, Paris; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019-2020: 173, no. 173.
Inscriptions
lower right, outside of plate in margin, signed in graphite: Degas
Watermarks
"ARC" watermark in block lettering (most likely partial Arche)
Wikidata ID
Q64955685