Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002136Dancer Resting with a Fan
by Edgar Degas
Provenance
Estate of the artist, from 1917 [estate stamp (Lugt 658) recto lower left, in red]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, April 7-9, 1919, third Degas estate sale, lot 260. Acquired by Alice Roullier, Chicago, for Robert Allerton (1873-1964), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1922.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture," June 1-November 1, 1933, p. 90, cat. 863. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 19-September 23, 1984, pp. 176-177, cat. 74 (ill.), cat. by Richard R. Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh. Reading, Penn., Reading Public Museum, "Degas and the Art of Japan," September 29-December 30, 2007, pp. 33 and 36, fig. 30, p. 38, and 104, cat. 12.
Publications
J.B. Manson, The Life and Work of Edgar Degas (London, 1927), p. 47. Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), p. 42, no. 2F7.
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
- 1890/95
- Medium
- Charcoal with stumping, on tan wove tracing paper, laid down on cream wood-pulp laminate board
- Dimensions
- 50.5 × 44.8 cm (19 15/16 × 17 11/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- charcoal
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Robert Allerton
- Accession no.
- 1922.5517
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