Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002461Dancer Turning
by Edgar Degas
Inscriptions
Not signed
Provenance
Estate of the artist, Paris [Lugt 657]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, December 11-13, 1919, lot 336. Sold by L'Art Français, New York, to John J. Ireland, Chicago, May 23, 1958 [invoice]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1968.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 19-September 23, 1984, pp. 92-93, cat. 40 (ill.), cat. by Richard R. Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh. Jackson, Mississippi Museum of Art, "Edgar Degas: The Many Dimensions of a Master French Impressionist," May 30-July 31, 1994, cat. 74; also traveled to the Dayton Art Institute, August 13-October 9, 1994 and the Center for the Fine Arts in Miami, April 2-May 15, 1994.
Publications
Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), pp. 40-41, no. 2F3. Jill De Vonyar and Richard Kendall, Degas and the Dance (New York, 2002), p. 164, pl. 181.
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. 1876
- Medium
- Charcoal, heightened with white chalk, with stumping, on pinkish-gray laid paper with blue fibers (discolored to brownish-gray)
- Dimensions
- 60.7 × 44.8 cm (23 15/16 × 17 11/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- charcoal
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Bequest of Dr. John J. Ireland
- Accession no.
- 1968.82
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