Singers on the Stage

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

1877/79

Edgar Degas
French, 1834-1917

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
Title: Singers on the Stage
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.: 1877–1879
Medium: Pastel, over monotype, on ivory wove paper, laid down on board
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right, in margin, in graphite: "Degas"
Dimensions: Plate: 12 × 16.9 cm (4 3/4 × 6 11/16 in.); Sheet: 13.8 × 18.2 cm (5 7/16 × 7 3/16 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Mrs. Clive Runnells
Reference Number: 1977.773
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P. A. Lemoisne, Degas et son Oeuvre, 2 (Paris, 1946), no. 455 (ill.).
Eugenia Parry Janis, Degas Monotypes (Cambridge, 1968) no. 30 (ill.).
Franco Russoli and Fiorella Minervino, L’Opera Completa di Degas (Milan, 1970), no. 453 (ill.).
Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), pp. 39-40, no. 2E12.
Mikael Wivel, Degas Intime (København, 1994), no. 6.
Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas (Chicago, 1996), pp. 35, 84 (ill.), 106 (ill. detail), and 108, pl. 13.

Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, “Degas,” April 12-May 2, 1924, cat. 225.
London, Artemis Group, “Edgar Degas,” 1983, cat. 15.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago,” July 19-September 23, 1984, pp. 85-86, cat. 37 (ill.), cat. by Richard R. Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Allerton gallery 202A, May 21, 1988-June 1, 1990 (installation).
Denmark, Copenhagen, Ordrupgaardsmalingen, “Degas Monotypes”, October 14-December 30, 1994, cat. 6
The Museum of Modern Art, New York City, “Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty”, March 22 - July 24, 2016, pp. 84-87, pl. 30 (ill.), cat. by Jodi Hauptman, et. al.

Georges Viau’s estate (died 1939), Paris, by April 1924-at least 1946 [Paris 1924 exh. cat.; and according to Lemoisne 1946]. Bequeathed by Mrs. Clive (Mary) Runnells to the Art Institute, 1977.

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