Dancer Kneeling, Seen from the Back

Prints and Drawings

1880/85

Edgar Degas
French, 1834-1917

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
Title: Dancer Kneeling, Seen from the Back
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.: 1880–1885
Medium: Charcoal with pastel on cream wove paper
Inscriptions: Not signed
Dimensions: Sheet: 32.2 × 23.5 cm (12 11/16 × 9 5/16 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Joseph Winterbotham
Reference Number: 1954.328
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Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), p. 41, no. 2F5.

Chicago, The Arts Club, “Exhibition of the Joseph Winterbotham Collection,” December 9-31, 1936, cat. 49.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago,” July 19-September 23, 1984, pp. 145-147, cat. 69 (ill.), cat. by Richard R. Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh.

Estate of the artist [Lugt 658]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, April 7-9, 1919, lot 139d. Joseph Winterbotham, Jr. (1878-1954), Chicago and Burlington, Vermont, by 1936 [Chicago 1936]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1954.

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