Dancer Turning

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

c. 1876

Edgar Degas
French, 1834-1917

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
Title: Dancer Turning
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.: 1871–1880
Medium: Charcoal, heightened with white chalk, with stumping, on pinkish-gray laid paper with blue fibers (discolored to brownish-gray)
Inscriptions: Not signed
Dimensions: 60.7 × 44.8 cm (23 15/16 × 17 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Dr. John J. Ireland
Reference Number: 1968.82
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Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), pp. 40-41, no. 2F3.
Jill De Vonyar and Richard Kendall, Degas and the Dance (New York, 2002), p. 164, pl. 181.

The Art Institute of Chicago, “Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago,” July 19-September 23, 1984, pp. 92-93, cat. 40 (ill.), cat. by Richard R. Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh.
Jackson, Mississippi Museum of Art, “Edgar Degas: The Many Dimensions of a Master French Impressionist,” May 30-July 31, 1994, cat. 74; also traveled to the Dayton Art Institute, August 13-October 9, 1994 and the Center for the Fine Arts in Miami, April 2-May 15, 1994.

Estate of the artist, Paris [Lugt 657]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, December 11-13, 1919, lot 336. Sold by L’Art Français, New York, to John J. Ireland, Chicago, May 23, 1958 [invoice]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1968.

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