Dancer Stretching at the Bar

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Prints and Drawings

1877/80

Edgar Degas
French, 1834-1917

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
Title: Dancer Stretching at the Bar
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
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.: 1867–1880
Medium: Pastel with estompe on cream laid paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right, in red pastel: "Degas"
Dimensions: 31.8 × 24 cm (12 9/16 × 9 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
Reference Number: 1933.1229
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Camille Mauclair, Edgar Degas, Revue de l’art (November 1903), p. 381 (ill.).
Paul Jamot, Degas (Paris, 1924), p. 34.
J.B. Manson, The Life and Work of Edgar Degas (London, 1927).
Richard Kendall, Degas and the Little Dancer, no. 14 (ill.).
Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), pp. 41-42, no. 2F6.

Minneapolis, Minn., The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, ” Exhibition of Modern Frnch Paintings,” November 1921-January 1922.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “A Century of Progress Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture” June 1- November 1, 1933, p. 90, cat. 860.
Northampton, Mass., Smith College Museum of Art, “Degas and The Dance,” April 5-May 27, 1979, cat. 16 (ill.)
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago,” July 19-September 23, 1984, pp. 90-91, cat. 39 (ill.), cat. by Richard R. Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh.
Dayton, Ohio, The Dayton Art Institute, “Edgar Degas: Exploring Diminsions,” August 12-October 9, 1994.
Omaha, Neb., Joslyn Art Museum, “Degas and the Little Dancer,” February 7-May 3, 1998, p. 150, pl. 14, cat. by Richard Kendall, et. al.; traveled to the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; and the the Baltimore Museum of Art, October 4, 1998-January 3, 1999.
Vienna, Albertina, “Impressionism: Pastels, Watercolors, Drawings”, February 9 - May 13, 2012, p. 114, 146, pl. 63, cat. by Christopher Lloyd.

Jacques Doucet (1853-1929), Paris [invoice]; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, December 28, 1917, lot 73 (ill.). Sold by Georges Bernheim, Paris, to Martin Ryerson (1856-1932), Chicago, April 14, 1920 [invoice]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.

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