
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005969Café-Concert (The Spectators)
by Edgar Degas
Inscriptions
Signed, lower right, in black pastel: “Degas”
Provenance
Durand-Ruel, Paris, by 1946 [Lemoisne 1946]. Brooks McCormick (1917–2006), Chicago, by 1984 [Chicago 1984]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2007.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago," May 23–August 12, 1984, cat. S.10. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas: At the Track, On the Stage", July 1, 2015-February 26, 2016, no cat.
Publications
Georges Grappe, Edgar Degas (Paris, 1908), p. 13 (ill.). Paul-André Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre II (Paris, 1946), pp. 390 and 391, no. 688 (ill.). Eugenia Parry Janis, "The Role of the Monotype in the Working Method of Degas I," The Burlington Magazine 109:766 (January 1967), p. 29, fig. 54. Eugenia Parry Janis, “The Role of the Monotype in the Working Method of Degas II,” The Burlington Magazine 109:767 (February 1967), p. 76, note 28. Eugenia Parry Janis, Degas Monotypes: Essay, Catalogue & Checklist (Cambridge, Mass., 1968), no. 28 (ill.). Franco Russoli and Fiorella Minervino, L'opera completa di Degas (Milan, 1970), p. 114, no. 589 (ill.). Jacques Lassaigne and Fiorella Minervino, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Degas, trans. by Simone Darses (Paris, 1988), p. 114, no. 589 (ill.). Jeff Fleischer, "Drawing a Crowd," Chicago Magazine (November 2007), p. 44, fig. 6.
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
- 1876/77
- Medium
- Pastel over monotype on buff wove paper, laid down on tan card
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 20.1 × 41.5 cm (7 15/16 × 16 3/8 in.); Sheet: 21 × 42.7 cm (8 5/16 × 16 13/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- prints and drawing
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Bequest of Brooks McCormick
- Accession no.
- 2007.286
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