Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002177Dancer at the Bar (on Point)
by Edgar Degas
Provenance
Estate of the artist [stamp (Lugt 658), lower left in red; stamp (Lugt 657), verso, lower right, in red]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, April 7-9, 1919, Third Degas estate sale, lot 125a. Robert Allerton (1873-1964), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1923.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "A Centruy of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture," June 1-November 1, 1933, p. 90, cat. 861. Birmingham, Ala., Birmingham Museum of Art, "Exhibition of French Drawings (Le Fin du Siècle)," October 5–November 1, 1952, no cat. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 19-September 23, 1984, pp. 145-147, cat. 70 (ill.), cat. by Richard R. Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh.
Publications
J.B. Manson, The Life and Work of Edgar Degas (London, 1927). Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), p. 42, no. 2F10.
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
- c. 1885
- Medium
- Charcoal with pastel and estompe on tan laid paper
- Dimensions
- 32 × 24.4 cm (12 5/8 × 9 5/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- charcoal
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Robert Allerton
- Accession no.
- 1923.292
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