Dancer at the Bar (on Point)

CC0 Public Domain Designation

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)
Origin: France
Date: 1880–1890
Medium: Charcoal with pastel and estompe on tan laid paper
Dimensions: 320 × 244 mm
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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