A Dancer

Prints and Drawings

c. 1895

Edgar Degas
French, 1834-1917

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
Title: A Dancer
Origin: France
Date: 1885–1917
Medium: Charcoal on dark orange card
Inscriptions: Not signed
Dimensions: 495 × 320 mm
Credit Line: Bequest of Janis H. Palmer
Reference Number: 1985.457

The Arts Club of Chicago, “Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings and Drawings from Private Collections in Chicago,” November 4-25, 1938, cat. 26.
Sarasota, Fla., Ringling Museum of Art, “Palmer Family Collections,” February 23-March 24, 1963, cat. 9.

Estate of the artist; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, April 9, 1919, Degas estate sale. Mrs. Potter Palmer II (née Pauline Kohlsaat; 1867-1956), Chicago, by 1938 [Chicago 1938]; by descent to her son, Gordon Palmer (1914-1964), Sarasota, Fla.; by descent to his wife, Janis H. Palmer (1917- 1985), Sarasota, Fla.; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1985.

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