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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Harlequin
    Edgar Degas. Harlequin, 1885. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00004302

    Harlequin

    by Edgar Degas

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    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.

    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
    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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