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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Young Woman Playing a Mandolin, Study for Portrait of Mlle. Fiocre in the Ballet "La Source"
    Edgar Degas. Young Woman Playing a Mandolin, Study for Portrait of Mlle. Fiocre in the Ballet "La Source", 1866/68. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00002178

    Young Woman Playing a Mandolin, Study for Portrait of Mlle. Fiocre in the Ballet "La Source"

    by Edgar Degas

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    Provenance

    Estate of the artist [stamp (Lugt 658), lower right in red; stamp (Lugt 657), verso, upper left]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, July 2-4, 1919, Fourth Degas estate sale, lot 79a. Given by Robert Allerton (1873-1964), Chicago, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1923.

    Exhibition history

    Iowa City, University of Iowa, "Six Centuries of Master Drawings," Summer, 1951, cat. 136 (ill.). New York, Charles E. Slatkin, "Renoir, Degas: A Loan Exhibition of Drawings, Pastels, Sculptures," 1958, cat. 10 (ill.). Northampton, Mass., Smith College Museum of Art, "Degas and the Dance," April 6-June 6, 1979. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 19-September 23, 1984, pp. 46-47, cat. 16 (ill.), cat. by Richard R. Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh. Arts Council of Great Britain, "The Private Degas," 1987, pp. 41-43 and 139, cat. 33, fig. 52, cat. by Richard Thomson; shown at the Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, January 20-February 28, 1987; and Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, March 17-May 3, 1987. Brooklyn Museum, "Mlle. Fiocre in the Ballet," October-December 1987. Glens Falls, The Hyde Collection, “Degas and Music,” July 12–October 18, 2009, p. 105, 106, and 130, fig. 39, cat. by Erin B. Coe et. al.

    Publications

    J.B. Manson, The Life and Work of Edgar Degas (London, 1927). Lillian Browse, Degas Dancers (London, 1949), pp. 335, plate 2. Bernard Champigneulle, Degas dessins (Paris, 1952), no. 23 (ill.). Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), p. 37, no. 2E5. Artemis Group, Edgar Degas, exh. cat. (London, 1983), no. 6.

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Edgar Degas / French, 1834-1917
    Date
    1866/68
    Medium
    Graphite on ivory laid paper
    Dimensions
    35.5 × 21.3 cm (14 × 8 7/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    graphite
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Gift of Robert Allerton
    Accession no.
    1923.293

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