Provenance
(A.-A. Hébrard, Paris);[1] sold to (M. Knoedler & Company, New York); given or sold 1956 to John Rewald [1912-1994], New York;[2] sold April 1968 to Paul Mellon [1907-1999], Upperville, Virginia; gift 1985 to NGA.
Exhibition History
- 1999
- An Enduring Legacy: Masterpieces from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1999-2000, as Dressed Ballet Dancer (Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans), no cat.
Bibliography
- 1976
- Millard, Charles W. The Sculpture of Edgar Degas. Princeton, 1976: 34 n. 41.
- 1979
- Failing, Patricia. "The Degas bronzes Degas never knew." Art News (April 1979): 38+.
- 1990
- Rewald, John. Degas's Complete Sculpture: Catalogue Raisonné. San Francisco, 1990: 79, repro.
- 1991
- Gingold, Diane J., and Elizabeth A.C. Weil. The Corporate Patron. New York, 1991: 109, color repro.
- 1991
- Pingeot, Anne. Degas Sculptures. Paris, 1991: no. 73.
- 1994
- Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 67, repro.
- 1995
- Barbour, Daphne. "Degas's 'Little Dancer': Not Just a Study in the Nude." Art Journal 54 (Summer 1995): 28+, repro.
- 1995
- Campbell, Sara. "A Catalogue of Degas' Bronzes." Apollo 142 (August 1995): 10-48, 46-47.
- 1997
- Henderson, Anne. "Portraits & Personalities." Washington Parent (November 1997): 14, repro.
- 1998
- Beale, Arthur. "Little Dancer Aged Fourteen: The Search for the Lost Modèle." In Richard Kendall, with contributions by Douglas W. Druick and Arthur Beale. Degas and the Little Dancer. Exh. cat. Josyln Art Museum, Omaha. New Haven and London, 1998: 104-108, figs. 77, 78, 80 (radiograph), 82, 85.
- 1998
- Hargrove, June. "Degas's 'Little 14-year-old Dancer:' Madonna of the Third Republic?" Sculpture Journal 2 (1998): 97-105, repro.
- 1998
- Hargrove, June. "Degas's 'Little Dancer' in the World of Pantomime." Apollo 147, no. 432 (February 1998): 15-21, repro.
- 2002
- Czestochowski, Joseph S., and Anne Pingeot. Degas--Sculptures. Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes. Memphis, 2002: 267.
- 2009
- Campbell, Sara, et al. Degas in the Norton Simon Museum: Nineteenth-Century Art. New Haven, 2009: 50-67.
- 2010
- Lindsay, Suzanne Glover, Daphne S. Barbour, and Shelley G. Sturman. Edgar Degas Sculpture. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2010: no. 16, 138-143, color repro.
- 2017
- Dickerson III, C.D. "The Sculpture Collection: Shaping a Vision, Expanding a Legacy." National Gallery of Art Bulletin 56 (Spring 2017): 10, repro.
