The Ballet Rehearsal Artist: Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)

ca. 1891

European Art

On view, 2nd floor, European Art
Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

unframed: 18 7/8 × 34 5/8 in. (47.9 × 87.9 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Duncan Phillips, B.A. 1908

Accession Number

1952.43.1

Culture

French

Period

19th century

Classification

Paintings

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Provenance
Galerie Camentron, Paris; Durand-Ruel, Paris (bought from Camentron in 1897); Durand-Ruel, New York (from 1901); Clarke, New York; Durand-Ruel, New York (above provenance according to Durand-Ruel, letter, March 22, 1963); sold to Duncan Phillips, Washington, D.C., 1928.
Bibliography
  • Jock Reynolds, "Director's Report," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2004), 11, ill
  • Jennifer Gross, ed., Edgar Degas: Defining the Modernist Edge, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2003), 10, 28, 48–50, 54, no. 13, pl. 13
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

genre (visual works), interior

Subject

ballet

Inscriptions

Signed lower left "Degas"

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