Dancer Taking a Bow

Prints and Drawings

c. 1878

Edgar Degas
French, 1834-1917

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
Title: Dancer Taking a Bow
Place: France (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1868–1917
Medium: Graphite on cream wove paper
Inscriptions: Not signed.
Dimensions: 39 × 24 cm (15 3/8 × 9 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Janis H. Palmer
Reference Number: 1985.470

Miami, Fla., The Center for the Fine Arts, “Edgar Degas: Exploring Dimensions”, April 2-May 15, 1994; traveled to the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Miss., May 31-July 31, 1994.
Sarasota, Fla., Ringling Museum of Art, “Palmer Family Collections,” February 23-March 24, 1963, cat. 8, as Dancer.

Estate of the artist [Lugt 657 and 658]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, July 4, 1919, Degas estate sale, lot 283a. Mrs. Potter Palmer II (née Pauline Kohlsaat; 1867–1956), Chicago, by 1948 [1948 inventory]; 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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