Young Woman Playing a Mandolin, Study for Portrait of Mlle. Fiocre in the Ballet "La Source"

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

1866/68

Edgar Degas
French, 1834-1917

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
Title: Young Woman Playing a Mandolin, Study for Portrait of Mlle. Fiocre in the Ballet "La Source"
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.: Made 1866–1868
Medium: Graphite on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: 35.5 × 21.3 cm (14 × 8 7/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Robert Allerton
Reference Number: 1923.293
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J.B. Manson, The Life and Work of Edgar Degas (London, 1927).
Lillian Browse, Degas Dancers (London, 1949), pp. 335, plate 2.
Bernard Champigneulle, Degas dessins (Paris, 1952), no. 23 (ill.).
Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), p. 37, no. 2E5.
Artemis Group, Edgar Degas, exh. cat. (London, 1983), no. 6.

Iowa City, University of Iowa, “Six Centuries of Master Drawings,” Summer, 1951, cat. 136 (ill.).
New York, Charles E. Slatkin, “Renoir, Degas: A Loan Exhibition of Drawings, Pastels, Sculptures,” 1958, cat. 10 (ill.).
Northampton, Mass., Smith College Museum of Art, “Degas and the Dance,” April 6-June 6, 1979.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago,” July 19-September 23, 1984, pp. 46-47, cat. 16 (ill.), cat. by Richard R. Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh.
Arts Council of Great Britain, “The Private Degas,” 1987, pp. 41-43 and 139, cat. 33, fig. 52, cat. by Richard Thomson; shown at the Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, January 20-February 28, 1987; and Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, March 17-May 3, 1987.
Brooklyn Museum, “Mlle. Fiocre in the Ballet,” October-December 1987.
Glens Falls, The Hyde Collection, “Degas and Music,” July 12–October 18, 2009, p. 105, 106, and 130, fig. 39, cat. by Erin B. Coe et. al.

Estate of the artist [stamp, Lugt 658, lower right in red; stamp, Lugt 657, verso, upper left]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, July 2-4, 1919, Fourth Degas estate sale, lot 79a. Given by Robert Allerton (1873-1964), Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1923.

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