Dancer at the Bar (on Point)

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Prints and Drawings

c. 1885

Edgar Degas
French, 1834-1917

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
Title: Dancer at the Bar (on Point)
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.: 1880–1890
Medium: Charcoal with pastel and estompe on tan laid paper
Dimensions: 32 × 24.4 cm (12 5/8 × 9 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Robert Allerton
Reference Number: 1923.292
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J.B. Manson, The Life and Work of Edgar Degas (London, 1927).
Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), p. 42, no. 2F10.

The Art Institute of Chicago, “A Centruy of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture,” June 1-November 1, 1933, p. 90, cat. 861.
Birmingham, Ala., Birmingham Museum of Art, “Exhibition of French Drawings (Le Fin du Siècle),” October 5–November 1, 1952, no cat.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago,” July 19-September 23, 1984, pp. 145-147, cat. 70 (ill.), cat. by Richard R. Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh.

Estate of the artist [stamp, Lugt 658, lower left in red; stamp, Lugt 657, verso, lower right, in red]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, April 7-9, 1919, Third Degas estate sale, lot 125a. Robert Allerton (1873-1964), Chicago; given to the Art Institute, 1923.

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