About This Artwork

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
French, 1834-1917

The Ballet Master, c. 1872

Graphite and black chalk with stumping, on buff wove paper, squared in charcoal
410 x 298 mm (sheet)
Gift of Robert Sonnenschein, II, 1951.110A

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

St. Louis, Mo., St. Louis Art Museum, "Drawings by Degas," 1966-1967, cat. 65, cat. by Jean Sutherland Boggs; traveled to the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 19-September 23, 1984, pp. 58-60, cat. 24 (ill.), cat. by Richard Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh.

Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, "Degas: The Dancers," November 22, 1984-March 10, 1985, cat. 11, cat. by George T. M. Shackelford.

Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, "Degas," February 9-May 16, 1988, cat. 131; traveled to Ottawa, The National Gallery of Canada, June 16-August 28, 1988, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, September 27, 1988-January 8, 1989.

Publication History

Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), p. 43, no. 2F12.

Ownership History

Estate of the artist [Lugt 657]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, July 2-4, 1919, lot 206a. Given by Robert Sonnenschein, II, New Freedom, Wis., to the Art Institute, 1951.