
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00004302Harlequin
by Edgar Degas
Inscriptions
Signed lower left: "Degas '85"
Provenance
Jacques Dubourg (1897-1981), Paris [Lemoisne 1946]. Bequeathed by Loula D. Lasker (1886–1961), New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1962.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 19-September 23, 1984, pp. 157-159, cat. 75 (ill.), cat. by Richard Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh. 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), pp. 468-469, no. 817 (ill.). John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (New York, 1970), pp. 268 and 280 (ill.). Fiorella Minervino and Franco Russoli, L’Opera Completa di Degas (Milan, 1970), no. 829, (ill.). Sandra Grung, Supplement to Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1971), p. 28. Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), p. 42, no. 2F9. Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas (Chicago, 1996), pp. 50-51, 96 (ill.), and 110, pl. 25. Jill DeVonyar and Richard Kendall, Degas and the Dance (New York, 2002), p. 182, pl. 203.
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
- 1885
- Medium
- Pastel on cream laid paper, pieced at bottom and right and laid down on board
- Dimensions
- 63.3 × 56.7 cm (24 15/16 × 22 3/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pastel
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Bequest of Loula D. Lasker
- Accession no.
- 1962.74
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