Dancer Resting with a Fan

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Prints and Drawings

1890/95

Edgar Degas
French, 1834-1917

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
Title: Dancer Resting with a Fan
Origin: France
Date: 1890–1895
Medium: Charcoal with stumping, on tan wove tracing paper, laid down on cream wood-pulp laminate board
Dimensions: 505 × 448 mm
Credit Line: Gift of Robert Allerton
Reference Number: 1922.5517
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J.B. Manson, The Life and Work of Edgar Degas (London, 1927), p. 47.
Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), p. 42, no. 2F7.

The Art Institute of Chicago, “A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture,” June 1-November 1, 1933, p. 90, cat. 863.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago,” July 19-September 23, 1984, pp. 176-177, cat. 74 (ill.), cat. by Richard R. Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh.
Reading, Penn., Reading Public Museum, “Degas and the Art of Japan,” September 29-December 30, 2007, pp. 33 and 36, fig. 30, p. 38, and 104, cat. 12.

Estate of the artist, from 1917 [estate stamp (Lugt 658) recto lower left, in red ink]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, April 7-9, 1919, third Degas estate sale, lot 260. Acquired by Alice Roullier, Chicago, for Robert Allerton (1873-1964), Chicago; given to the Art Institute, 1922.

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