Theatre Box, c. 1877

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Medium

pastel over monotype on pink-tan laid paper

Dimensions

framed: 14 1/2 x 12 3/4 in. (36.83 x 32.39 cm)
unframed: 8 7/16 x 6 5/8 in. (21.43 x 16.83 cm)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)

Accession Number

2014.136.177

Artists / Makers

Edgar Degas (artist) French, 1834 - 1917

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Inscription

lower left in pastel: "Degas"

Provenance

(Atelier Degas, third sale, 1919, no. 407); Ms. Baronne Anzon Caccamisi Collection; Ms. Blanche Marchesi; (Knoedler and Co. Inc., London, 1921); William A. Clark, Washington, 1922; bequested 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art; stored at John Handley High School in Winchester, VA from 1942-1944; acquired 2014 by The National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Clark, William Andrews
Corcoran Gallery of Art

Exhibition History

1959: "Masterpieces of the Corcoran Gallery of Art," Wildenstein & Co., New York, 1959, 33.

1968: "Degas Monotypes," Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, April 24 - July 14, Pl. 14.

1978: "The William A. Clark Collection," The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., April 26-July 16.

Bibliography

1927: Manson, JB. The Life and WOrks of Edgar Degas. London, The Studio, Pl. 62.

1946: Lemoisne, Paul André. Degas et son Oeuvre. 4 vols. Paris, 1946-1949: 2:238-239, no. 434.

1948: Dumont, Henri. Degas. New York, Hyperion, 37 (repr.).

1975: Adhemar, Jean and Francoise Cachin. Degas: the complete etchings, lithographs, and monotypes. New York, The Viking Press, 281.

1984: Guillaud, Jaqueline and Maurice. Degas: Form and Space. Paris and New York, Center Culturel du Marais, 409, fig. 263.

2019: Schulman, Michael.Edgar Degas, Digital Critical Catalogue. MS-1980.