Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00003369Dancer Kneeling, Seen from the Back
by Edgar Degas
Inscriptions
Not signed
Provenance
Estate of the artist [stampe (Lugt 658) lower left in red]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, April 7-9, 1919, lot 139d. Joseph Winterbotham, Jr. (1878-1954), Chicago and Burlington, Vermont, by 1936 [Chicago 1936]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1954.
Exhibition history
Chicago, The Arts Club, "Exhibition of the Joseph Winterbotham Collection," December 9-31, 1936, cat. 49. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 19-September 23, 1984, pp. 145-147, cat. 69 (ill.), cat. by Richard R. Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh.
Publications
Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), p. 41, no. 2F5.
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
- 1880/85
- Medium
- Charcoal with pastel on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 32.2 × 23.5 cm (12 11/16 × 9 5/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- charcoal
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Bequest of Joseph Winterbotham
- Accession no.
- 1954.328
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