Actresses in Their Dressing Rooms

1879/1880

Edgar Degas

Artist, French, 1834 - 1917

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and aquatint on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 22.5 x 31 cm (8 7/8 x 12 3/16 in.)
    plate: 16.1 × 21.2 cm (6 5/16 × 8 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.5.473

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Reed/Shapiro 1984, no. 50, State iv/v

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Harris Whittemore [1864-1927], Naugatuck, CT; (his sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 18 January 1949, lot 319); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia, PA); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA, 1949; gift to the NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1955

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

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. 117.

1963

  • Renoir to Picasso 1914, Lowe Gallery of the University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, 1963, no. 22.

1964

  • Etchings by Edgar Degas, The University of Chicago, 1964, no. 32, repro (cover).

1966

  • Prints 1800-1945, Minneapolis Institute of Arts; City Art Museum of St. Louis; and Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco, 1966, no. 53.

1983

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., July 1983.

1984

  • Edgar Degas: The Painter as Printmaker, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery, 1984-1985, no. 50 (IV), repro.

1988

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., June 1988.

2014

  • Degas/Cassatt, NGA, 2014, no.

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.50, State iv/v.

1998

  • Koob, Pamela N. Edward Hopper's "New York Movie". Hunter College of The City University of New York, 1998: p. 8, fig. 7.

Wikidata ID

Q65071943

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