
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00004345Singers on the Stage
by Edgar Degas
Inscriptions
Signed recto, lower right, in margin, in graphite: "Degas"
Provenance
Georges Viau (1855-1939), Paris, by Apr. 1924 [Paris 1924; and Lemoisne 1946]. Bequeathed by Mrs. Clive (Mary) Runnells to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1977.
Exhibition history
Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, “Degas,” April 12-May 2, 1924, cat. 225. London, Artemis Group, “Edgar Degas,” 1983, cat. 15. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 19-September 23, 1984, pp. 85-86, cat. 37 (ill.), cat. by Richard R. Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh. The Art Institute of Chicago, Allerton gallery 202A, May 21, 1988-June 1, 1990 (installation). Denmark, Copenhagen, Ordrupgaardsmalingen, "Degas Monotypes", October 14-December 30, 1994, cat. 6 The Museum of Modern Art, New York City, "Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty", March 22 - July 24, 2016, pp. 84-87, pl. 30 (ill.), cat. by Jodi Hauptman, et. al.
Publications
P. A. Lemoisne, Degas et son Oeuvre, 2 (Paris, 1946), no. 455 (ill.). Eugenia Parry Janis, Degas Monotypes (Cambridge, 1968) no. 30 (ill.). Franco Russoli and Fiorella Minervino, L’Opera Completa di Degas (Milan, 1970), no. 453 (ill.). Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), pp. 39-40, no. 2E12. Mikael Wivel, Degas Intime (København, 1994), no. 6. Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas (Chicago, 1996), pp. 35, 84 (ill.), 106 (ill. detail), and 108, pl. 13.
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
- 1877/79
- Medium
- Pastel, over monotype, on ivory wove paper, laid down on board
- Dimensions
- Plate: 12 × 16.9 cm (4 3/4 × 6 11/16 in.); Sheet: 13.8 × 18.2 cm (5 7/16 × 7 3/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pastel
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Bequest of Mrs. Clive Runnells
- Accession no.
- 1977.773
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