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Au début des années 1870, René de Gas semble avoir fait photographié les tableaux de son frère dès que ceux-ci étaient achevés: en juillet 1872, il écrivait "...une répétition de danse qui est charmante. Aussitôt le tableau fini, j'en ferai faire une grande photographie" (M. Brown, The De Gas-Musson Family Papers. An Annotated Inventory, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane, 1991, p. 20). Elle fut très probablement prise entre l'automne 1874, période durant laquelle Degas travaillait sur le tableau, et l'automne 1875 quand il le remit au chanteur et collectionneur Jean-Baptiste Faure, qui le lui avait commandé. Faure le conserva pendant plusieurs années, puis le vendit en février 1898 au marchand Paul Durand-Ruel.
In the early 1870s, René de Gas evidently had his brother's paintings photographed as soon as they were finished. In a letter of 17 July 1872, he writes of "une répétition de danse qui est charmante. Aussitôt le tableau fini, j'en ferai faire une grande photographie." (M. Brown, The De Gas-Musson Family Papers; An Annotated Inventory, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane, 1991, p. 20). The present photograph of a later dance picture (Lemoisne 397; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), must have been made between autumn 1874, when Degas is known to have been working on the painting, and autumn 1875, when he delivered it to the singer and collector Jean-Baptiste Faure, who had commissioned it and who kept it for many years, selling it to the dealer Paul Durand-Ruel only in February 1898.
In the early 1870s, René de Gas evidently had his brother's paintings photographed as soon as they were finished. In a letter of 17 July 1872, he writes of "une répétition de danse qui est charmante. Aussitôt le tableau fini, j'en ferai faire une grande photographie." (M. Brown, The De Gas-Musson Family Papers; An Annotated Inventory, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane, 1991, p. 20). The present photograph of a later dance picture (Lemoisne 397; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), must have been made between autumn 1874, when Degas is known to have been working on the painting, and autumn 1875, when he delivered it to the singer and collector Jean-Baptiste Faure, who had commissioned it and who kept it for many years, selling it to the dealer Paul Durand-Ruel only in February 1898.