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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Ballet at the Paris Opéra
    Edgar Degas. Ballet at the Paris Opéra, 1877. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00003074

    Ballet at the Paris Opéra

    by Edgar Degas

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Signed recto, lower left, in white pastel: "Degas"

    Provenance

    Albert Hecht (1842–1889), Paris; by descent to his wife, Mme. Albert Hecht (née Mathilde Oulman), Paris, to at least, April 1924 [Paris 1924 exh. cat.]; by descent to her daughter, Suzanne Hecht (later Mme. Emannuel Pontremoli; died 1956), Paris, by 1939 [Lemoisne 1946]. Mary and Leigh Block, Chicago, by May 1967 [Washington DC 1967 exh. cat.]; given to the Art Institute, 1981.

    Exhibition history

    Third Impressionist Exhibition 1877. Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, "Exposition Degas," April 12-May 2, 1924, p. 63, cat. 113. Washington D.C., The National Gallery of Art, "100 European Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Leigh B. Block," May 4-June 11, 1967, cat. 6; traveled to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, September 21-November 2, 1967. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 19-September 23, 1984, pp. 72-74, cat. 31 (ill.), cat. by Richard R. Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh. Detroit Institute of Arts, "Degas and the Dance," October 20, 2002-January 12, 2003, p. 95, 111, 165-167, 291, pl. 183 (ill. p.166), cat. by Jill DeVonyar and Richard Kendall. Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, “The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago,” June 29-November 2, 2008, p. 91, cat. 40 (ill.), cat. by Gloria Groom and Douglas Druick. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas: At the Track, On the Stage", July 1, 2015-February 26, 2016, no cat.

    Publications

    Paul André Lemoisne, Degas et son Oeuvre (Paris, 1946), no. 513 (ill.). Jean Sutherland Boggs, “Degas Monotypes at the Fogg,” The Burlington Magazine 110:784 (July 1968), pp. 429-430 (ill). Fiorella Minervino, L'Opera Completa di Degas (Milan, 1970), no. 724. George T.M. Shackelford, Degas: The Dancers, exh. cat. (Washington D.C., 1984), p. 30, fig. 1.6. The New Paintings: Impressionism 1874-1886, exh. cat. (San Francisco, 1986), p. 204. Richard Brettell, French Impressionists (Chicago, 1987), pp. 20-22, and 117 (ill.). Jean Sutherland Boggs and Anne Maheux, Degas Pastels (New York, 1992), p. 52, pl. 7. James N. Wood and Sally Ruth May, The Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide (Chicago, 1993), p. 214 (ill.). Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas (Chicago, 1996), pp. 30-31, 33(ill. detail), 82 (ill.), and 108, pl. 11. James N. Wood, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 2000), p.49 (ill.). James N. Wood and Sally Ruth May, The Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide (Chicago, 2003), p. 214 (ill.). Maria Teresa Benedetti, Degas Classico e Moderno, exh. cat. (Rome, 2004), p. 233.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Edgar Degas / French, 1834-1917
    Date
    1877
    Medium
    Pastel over monotype on cream laid paper
    Dimensions
    Plate: 35.2 × 70.6 cm (13 7/8 × 27 13/16 in.); Sheet: 35.9 × 71.9 cm (14 3/16 × 28 5/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    pastel
    Style
    Impressionism
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Gift of Mary and Leigh Block
    Accession no.
    1981.12

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