About This Artwork

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
French, 1834-1917

Café-Concert (The Spectators), c. 1876-77

Pastel over monotype on buff wove paper, laid down on tan card
201 x 415 mm (image/plate); 210 x 427 mm (sheet)
Signed, lower right, in black pastel: “Degas”
Bequest of Brooks McCormick, 2007.286

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago," May 23–August 12, 1984, cat. S.10.

Publication History

Georges Grappe, Edgar Degas (Paris, 1908), p. 13 (ill.).

Paul-André Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre II (Paris, 1946), pp. 390 and 391, no. 688 (ill.).

Eugenia Parry Janis, "The Role of the Monotype in the Working Method of Degas I," The Burlington Magazine 109:766 (January 1967), p. 29, fig. 54.

Eugenia Parry Janis, “The Role of the Monotype in the Working Method of Degas II,” The Burlington Magazine 109:767 (February 1967), p. 76, note 28.

Eugenia Parry Janis, Degas Monotypes: Essay, Catalogue & Checklist (Cambridge, Mass., 1968), no. 28 (ill.).

Franco Russoli and Fiorella Minervino, L'opera completa di Degas (Milan, 1970), p. 114, no. 589 (ill.).

Jacques Lassaigne and Fiorella Minervino, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Degas, trans. by Simone Darses (Paris, 1988), p. 114, no. 589 (ill.).

Jeff Fleischer, "Drawing a Crowd," Chicago Magazine (November 2007), p. 44, fig. 6.

Ownership History

Durand-Ruel, Paris, by 1946 [Lemoisne 1946]. Brooks McCormick (1917–2006), Chicago, by 1984 [Chicago 1984]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 2007.