About This Artwork
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
French, 1834-1917
Dancer Kneeling, Seen from the Back1880/85
Charcoal with pastel on cream wove paper
322 x 235 mm (sheet)
Not signed
Bequest of Joseph Winterbotham, 1954.328
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Chicago, The Arts Club, "Exhibition of the Joseph Winterbotham Collection," December 9-31, 1936, cat. 49.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 19-September 23, 1984, pp. 145-147, cat. 69 (ill.), cat. by Richard R. Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh.
Publication History
Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), p. 41, no. 2F5.
Ownership History
Estate of the artist [Lugt 658]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, April 7-9, 1919, lot 139d. Joseph Winterbotham, Jr. (1878-1954), Chicago and Burlington, Vermont, by 1936 [Chicago 1936]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1954.