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Photo credit: Yale University Art Gallery
Artist: Edgar Degas, French, 1834–1917
Dancer Rubbing Her Knee, known as Dancer in the Role of Harlequin
ca. 1885 (model); cast in 1920s
Bronze
30.5 × 9.366 × 16.51 cm (12 × 3 11/16 × 6 1/2 in.)
Gift of Molly and Walter Bareiss, B.S. 1940S
1999.9.25
Culture:
French
Period:
19th century
Classification:
Sculpture
Bibliography:
Jennifer Gross, ed., Edgar Degas: Defining the Modernist Edge, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2003), 11, 29–31, no. 7, pl. 7.
Art for Yale: Collecting for a New Century, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2007), 240, pl. 228.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
