Dancer Putting on Her Stockings

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

modeled 1900/12 (cast 1919/21)

Edgar Degas
French, 1834–1917

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
Title: Dancer Putting on Her Stockings
Place: France (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Modeled 1900–1912
Medium: Bronze
Inscriptions: On base: "CIRE PERDU A. HEBRARD" 70 – K
Dimensions: H.: 34.9 cm (13 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Robert Edelmann
Reference Number: 1960.5

John Rewald, Degas: Works in Sculpture, A Complete Catalogue (New York, 1944), pp. 27, 123, no. 48.
New York, M. Knoedler & Company, Inc., Edgar Degas, 1834–1917: Original Wax Sculptures (1955), no. 54, fig. 54.
John Rewald, Degas Sculpture: The Complete Works (New York, 1957), no. 48, pl. 73.
Charles W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas (Princeton, 1976), pp. 35 n. 49, 69, fig. 104.
Anne Pingeot, Degas: Sculptures (Paris, 1991), pp. 158–59, no. 13.
Sara Campbell, “A Catalogue of Degas’ Bronzes,” Apollo 142, 402 (August 1995), p. 45, no. 70.
Joseph S. Czestochowski and Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures: Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes (Memphis, 2002), pp. 258–59, no. 70.

Art Institute of Chicago, “Degas in the Art Institute of Chicago,” 19 July – 23 September 1984, no. 87.

Cast prior to 1959. Robert Edelmann, Chicago, by 1959; given to the Art Institute, 1959.

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