Three Dancers

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

1895/1900

Edgar Degas
French, 1834-1917

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
Title: Three Dancers
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.: Made 1895–1900
Medium: Charcoal and wetted charcoal, with stumping, on tan wove tracing paper, pieced, and laid down on cream wove card (with accidental mark in blue crayon at right)
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso, upper center, in blue pencil: "1578 / Ph532"
Dimensions: 52.8 × 49.7 cm (20 13/16 × 19 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 2013.926
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Paul-André Lemoisne, Degas et son œuvre, vol. 3 (P. Brame et C.M. De Hauke, 1946), under no. 996.
Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 128, cat. 89 (ill.).

Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Dec. 1967–Mar. 1968.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, “Edgar Degas: The Reluctant Impressionist,” June 20–Sept. 1, 1974, cat. 86.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 128, cat. 89 (ill.).

Estate of the artist [stamp (Lugt 658) recto, lower left, in red]; sold, 3rd Degas estate sale [stamp (Lugt 657) verso, center on mount, in red], Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, Apr. 7–9, 1919, lot 231, as Groupe de danseuses en maillot, to Cottevielle [annotated sale cat., Getty Research Institute]. Marcel Guiot, Paris, Mar. 1966. Sold, Reid Gallery, London, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA.; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.

Lemoisne 996

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