On Stage I
1876
Artist, French, 1834 - 1917

Artwork overview
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Medium
soft-ground etching and drypoint on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 12 × 16.2 cm (4 3/4 × 6 3/8 in.)
sheet: 16 x 24.5 cm (6 5/16 x 9 5/8 in.) -
Accession
1943.3.3364
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Catalogue Raisonné
Reed/Shapiro 1984, no. 22, State i/v
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Richard H. Zinser, Forest Hills, NY); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1940; gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1946
Music in Prints: Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, NGA, 1946
1951
French Nineteenth-century Exhibition, Maryville College, Maryville, TN, 1951, no catalogue.
1955
Edgar Degas, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX, 1955, no cat.
1956
Art and the Theater, Watkins Gallery, American University, Washington, DC, 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. 120.
1962
Installation during Fine Art Festival, American River College, Sacramento, CA, 1962, no cat.
1963
Renoir to Picasso 1914, Lowe Art Gallery at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, 1963, no. 21.
1964
Etchings by Edgar Degas, The University of Chicago, 1964, no. 24.
1983
Night Prints, NGA, 1983, no. 47.
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. 22 (I), repro.
2014
Degas/Cassatt, NGA, 2014, no. 16, repro.
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. 169, repro.
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.22, State i/v.
Wikidata ID
Q64955684