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Edgar Degas

Dancer with a Tambourine, original wax 1880s, cast 1920/1964

Not on View

Medium

copper alloy

Dimensions

overall with base: 27.7 x 17.1 x 17.5 cm (10 7/8 x 6 3/4 x 6 7/8 in.)
overall (height of figure): 27.2 cm (10 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Accession Number

1985.64.63

Artists / Makers

Edgar Degas (sculptor) French, 1834 - 1917

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Inscription

on top of base in rear left corner: Degas [stamped replica of artist's signature]; stamped in same location: HER. 12/D / CIRE PERDUE AAHEBRARD

Marks and Labels

FM: CIRE PERDUE AAHEBRARD

Provenance

(A.A. Hébrard, Paris); Degas heirs; (sale, "Coll. M.X. ...,"[1] Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 24 November 1964, no. 41); purchased by (Hector Brame, Paris) for Paul Mellon [1907-1999], Upperville, Virginia; gift 1985 to NGA.

[1] Anonymous seller identified by Paul Brame as a Degas heir; see copy of his letter to Paul Mellon, dated 3 December 1964, in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Brame, Hector
Drouot, Hôtel
Hébrard, Adrien-Aurélien
Mellon, Paul
Private Collection (NGA Former Owner)

Exhibition History

1978: Degas, Virginia Museum, Richmond, 1978, no. 43.

2005: Breaking the Mold: Sculpture in Paris from Daumier to Rodin, The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, 2005-2006, unnumbered catalogue, fig. 139.

Bibliography

1990: Rewald, John. Degas Sculpture: The Complete Works. Translated by John Coleman and Noel Moulton. New York, 1956: no. XXXIV, repro.

1991: Pingeot, Anne. Degas Sculptures. Paris, 1991: no. 20.

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 67, repro.

1995: Campbell, Sara. "A Catalogue of Degas' Bronzes." Apollo 142 (August 1995): 17, no. 12.

2002: Czestochowski, Joseph S., and Anne Pingeot. Degas--Sculptures. Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes. Memphis, 2002: 145, 161.

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. 21, 162-164, color repro.