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Edgar Degas

Spanish Dancers and Musicians, 1868/1869

Not on View

Medium

watercolor and pen and black ink on wove paper

Dimensions

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

Credit Line

Woodner Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Lemoisne 1946, no. 173

Accession Number

2000.25.3

Artists / Makers

Edgar Degas (artist) French, 1834 - 1917

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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

Galerie Waring Hopkins
Morisot, Berthe
Rouart, Clement
Rouart, Ernest, Mme
Woodner Family Collection, Inc., Ian, The

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

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

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.