Café-Concert (The Spectators)

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

1876/77

Edgar Degas
French, 1834-1917

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
Title: Café-Concert (The Spectators)
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.: 1876–1877
Medium: Pastel over monotype on buff wove paper, laid down on tan card
Inscriptions: Signed, lower right, in black pastel: “Degas”
Dimensions: Image/plate: 20.1 × 41.5 cm (7 15/16 × 16 3/8 in.); Sheet: 21 × 42.7 cm (8 5/16 × 16 13/16 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Brooks McCormick
Reference Number: 2007.286
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Georges Grappe, Edgar Degas (Paris, 1908), p. 13 (ill.).
Paul-André Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre II (Paris, 1946), pp. 390 and 391, no. 688 (ill.).
Eugenia Parry Janis, “The Role of the Monotype in the Working Method of Degas I,” The Burlington Magazine 109:766 (January 1967), p. 29, fig. 54.
Eugenia Parry Janis, “The Role of the Monotype in the Working Method of Degas II,” The Burlington Magazine 109:767 (February 1967), p. 76, note 28.
Eugenia Parry Janis, Degas Monotypes: Essay, Catalogue & Checklist (Cambridge, Mass., 1968), no. 28 (ill.).
Franco Russoli and Fiorella Minervino, L’opera completa di Degas (Milan, 1970), p. 114, no. 589 (ill.).
Jacques Lassaigne and Fiorella Minervino, Tout l’oeuvre peint de Degas, trans. by Simone Darses (Paris, 1988), p. 114, no. 589 (ill.).
Jeff Fleischer, “Drawing a Crowd,” Chicago Magazine (November 2007), p. 44, fig. 6.

The Art Institute of Chicago, “Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago,” May 23–August 12, 1984, cat. S.10.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Degas: At the Track, On the Stage”, July 1, 2015-February 26, 2016, no cat.

Durand-Ruel, Paris, by 1946 [Lemoisne 1946]. Brooks McCormick (1917–2006), Chicago, by 1984 [Chicago 1984]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 2007.

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