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Edgar Degas

Dancers in the Wings, 1879/1880

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Medium

etching, aquatint, and drypoint on chine-like laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 14 × 10.4 cm (5 1/2 × 4 1/8 in.)

sheet: 19.8 × 16.7 cm (7 13/16 × 6 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Reed/Shapiro 1984, no. 47, State iv/viii

Accession Number

1943.3.3363

Artists / Makers

Edgar Degas (artist) French, 1834 - 1917

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Marks and Labels

Degas's studio stamp

Provenance

(Richard H. Zinser, Forest Hills, NY); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1940; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1964: Etchings by Edgar Degas, The University of Chicago, 1964, no. 26.

2015: Degas and the Dance, Toledo (Ohio) Museum of Art, 2015-2016.

2019: Degas at the Opera, Musée d'Orsay, Paris; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019-2020, no. 172, repro. (shown only in Paris)

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 iv/viii.

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