About This Artwork

Edgar Degas
French, 1834–1917

Dancer Putting on Her Stockings, modeled 1900/12 (cast 1919/21)

Bronze
H. 34.9 cm (13 3/4 in.)
On base: "CIRE PERDU A. HEBRARD"
Gift of Robert Edelmann, 1960.5

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Berlin, Galerie Flechtheim, "Das Plastische werk von Edgar Degas," May 1926, Moderne Galerie Thannhauser, Munich, July - August 1926, and Galerie Arnold, Dresden, September 1926, no. 12.

Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in the Art Institute of Chicago," 19 July – 23 September 1984, no. 87.

Publication History

John Rewald, Degas: Works in Sculpture, A Complete Catalogue (New York, 1944), pp. 27, 123, no. 48.

New York, M. Knoedler & Company, Inc., Edgar Degas, 1834–1917: Original Wax Sculptures (1955), no. 54, fig. 54.

John Rewald, Degas Sculpture: The Complete Works (New York, 1957), no. 48, pl. 73.

Charles W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas (Princeton, 1976), pp. 35 n. 49, 69, fig. 104.

Anne Pingeot, Degas: Sculptures (Paris, 1991), pp. 158–59, no. 13.

Sara Campbell, “A Catalogue of Degas’ Bronzes,” Apollo 142, 402 (August 1995), p. 45, no. 70.

Joseph S. Czestochowski and Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures: Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes (Memphis, 2002), pp. 258–59, no. 70.

Ownership History

Commissioned by the heirs of Edgar Degas from the Hébrard Foundry, Paris, May 1918; sold by A. A. Hébrard to Alfred Flechtheim, Cologne, November 10, 1926 [see Czestochowski and Pingeot, pp. 17-18, and Pingeot]. Robert Edelmann, Chicago, by 1959; given to the Art Institute, 1959.