About This Artwork
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
French, 1834-1917
Dancer Resting with a Fan1890/95
Charcoal with stumping, on tan wove tracing paper, laid down on cream wood-pulp laminate board
505 x 448 mm
Gift of Robert Allerton, 1922.5517
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
The Art Institute of Chicago, "A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture," June 1-November 1, 1933, p. 90, cat. 863.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 19-September 23, 1984, pp. 176-177, cat. 74 (ill.), cat. by Richard R. Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh.
Reading, Penn., Reading Public Museum, "Degas and the Art of Japan," September 29-December 30, 2007, pp. 33 and 36, fig. 30, p. 38, and 104, cat. 12.
Publication History
J.B. Manson, The Life and Work of Edgar Degas (London, 1927), p. 47.
Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), p. 42, no. 2F7.
Ownership History
Estate of the artist, from 1917 [estate stamp (Lugt 658) recto lower left, in red ink]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, April 7-9, 1919, third Degas estate sale, lot 260. Acquired by Alice Roullier, Chicago, for Robert Allerton (1873-1964), Chicago; given to the Art Institute, 1922.