Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005907Three Dancers
by Edgar Degas
Inscriptions
Inscribed verso, upper center, in blue pencil: "1578 / Ph532"
Provenance
Estate of the artist [stamp (Lugt 658) recto, lower left, in red]; sold, 3rd Degas estate sale [stamp (Lugt 657) verso, center on mount, in red], Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, Apr. 7–9, 1919, lot 231, as Groupe de danseuses en maillot, to Cottevielle [annotated sale cat., Getty Research Institute]. Marcel Guiot, Paris, Mar. 1966. Sold, Reid Gallery, London, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA.; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Exhibition history
Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Dec. 1967–Mar. 1968. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, "Edgar Degas: The Reluctant Impressionist," June 20–Sept. 1, 1974, cat. 86. Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 128, cat. 89 (ill.).
Publications
Paul-André Lemoisne, Degas et son œuvre, vol. 3 (P. Brame et C.M. De Hauke, 1946), under no. 996. Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 128, cat. 89 (ill.).
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
- 1895/1900
- Medium
- Charcoal and wetted charcoal, with stumping, on tan wove tracing paper, pieced, and laid down on cream wove card (with accidental mark in blue crayon at right)
- Dimensions
- 52.8 × 49.7 cm (20 13/16 × 19 5/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- prints and drawing
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2013.926
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