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Edgar Degas

The Green Room, c. 1876/1877

Not on View

series Title

Ludovic Halévy's "The Cardinal Family" (La Famille Cardinal)

Medium

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

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.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Janis 1968, no. 229

Accession Number

1948.11.58

Artists / Makers

Edgar Degas (artist) French, 1834 - 1917

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Inscription

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]

Marks and Labels

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

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

Lake, Carlton
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

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.

1955: 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.