
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001965Spanish Dance
by Edgar Degas
Inscriptions
Marked: 45 / HER.D; DEGAS; CIRE PERDUE A.HERBRARD [Foundry mark]
Provenance
Commissioned by Edgar Degas’s heirs from the Hébrard Foundry, Paris, May 1918; René DeGas Family, Paris, by 1921 [see Czestochowski and Pingeot, p. 15]; by descent to the DeGas-Musson Family, New Orleans, before 1950 [see source cited above, p. 209]; sold by Gaston DeGas-Musson and the Musson Family to the Elkin and Albris Silberman Galleries, New York, January 19, 1950 [see source cited above; see also agreement of sale, January 19, 1950, DeGas-Musson Family Papers, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, copy in curatorial file]; sold by Silberman Galleries to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1950.
Exhibition history
New Orleans, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, "Edgar Degas: His Family and Friends in New Orleans," 2 May – 16 June 1965, no. 25. Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in the Art Institute of Chicago," 19 July – 23 September 1984, no. 73. Rutgers. The State University of New Jersey,Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum. "Breaking the Mold: Sculpture in Paris from Daumier to Degas," 23 October 2005 - 15 March 2006. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas: At the Track, On the Stage," July 1, 2015-February 26, 2016, no cat.
Publications
John Rewald, Degas: Works in Sculpture, A Complete Catalogue (New York, 1944), pp. 25, 103, no. 46. Art Institute of Chicago, "Recent Purchases and Gifts," Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin, 44, 4 (November 1950), n. p. (ill.). New York, M. Knoedler & Company, Inc., Edgar Degas, 1834–1917: Original Wax Sculptures (1955), no. 62, fig. 62. John Rewald, Degas Sculpture: The Complete Works (New York, 1957), p. 151, no. 46, pls. 34–35. Fiorella Minervino, L’Opera completa di Degas (Milan, 1970), p. 142, cat. S36. Charles W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas (Princeton, 1976), pp. 30, 35, 67, 102–04, 106, 111, figs. 69, 73. Anne Pingeot, Degas: Sculptures (Paris, 1991), pp. 170–71, no. 36. Sara Campbell, "A Catalogue of Degas’ Bronzes," Apollo 142, 402 (August 1995), pp. 38–39, no. 57. Joseph S. Czestochowski and Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures: Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes (Memphis, 2002), pp. 232–33, no. 57.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)
- Date
- Modeled c. 1883, cast 1919–21
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- 47 × 16.6 × 21.6 cm (18 1/2 × 6 1/2 × 8 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- statuette
- Style
- Impressionism
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Wirt D. Walker Endowment
- Accession no.
- 1950.111
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