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PROPERTY FROM THE FAMILY OF ROBERT TREAT PAINE II
EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
Danseuses sur la scène
Details
EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
Danseuses sur la scène
signed 'Degas' (lower left)
gouache, watercolor, pastel, pen and black ink, red chalk, charcoal and pencil possibly over lithographic or monotype base on paper
Image: 8 ½ x 6 ¼ in. (21 x 16 cm.)
Sheet: 9 1⁄8 x 7 ¼ in. (23.2 x 18.5 cm.)
Executed circa 1879
Danseuses sur la scène
signed 'Degas' (lower left)
gouache, watercolor, pastel, pen and black ink, red chalk, charcoal and pencil possibly over lithographic or monotype base on paper
Image: 8 ½ x 6 ¼ in. (21 x 16 cm.)
Sheet: 9 1⁄8 x 7 ¼ in. (23.2 x 18.5 cm.)
Executed circa 1879
Provenance
Henri Rouart, Paris; Estate sale, Galerie Les Arts, Paris, 11 December 1912, lot 72.
Ernest Rouart, Paris (acquired at the above sale).
Geneviève Marin Bricka, Montpellier (by descent from above).
Carroll Carstairs Gallery, New York.
Elizabeth Paine Metcalf, Boston (acquired from the above, 1937).
By descent from the above to the present owner.
Ernest Rouart, Paris (acquired at the above sale).
Geneviève Marin Bricka, Montpellier (by descent from above).
Carroll Carstairs Gallery, New York.
Elizabeth Paine Metcalf, Boston (acquired from the above, 1937).
By descent from the above to the present owner.
Literature
G.W. Thornley, Quinze lithographies d'après Degas, Paris, 1899 (lithograph after the present drawing illustrated).
P.A. Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre, Paris, 1946, vol. II, p. 320, no. 570 (illustrated, p. 321).
F. Russoli and F. Minervino, L'opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1974, p. 120, no. 733 (illustrated).
K.L. Spangenberg, French Drawings, Watercolors, and Pastels 1800-1950, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Collection, exh. cat., The Cincinnati Museum of Art, 1979, p. 49.
P.A. Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre, Paris, 1946, vol. II, p. 320, no. 570 (illustrated, p. 321).
F. Russoli and F. Minervino, L'opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1974, p. 120, no. 733 (illustrated).
K.L. Spangenberg, French Drawings, Watercolors, and Pastels 1800-1950, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Collection, exh. cat., The Cincinnati Museum of Art, 1979, p. 49.
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