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    Café-Concert (The Spectators)
    Edgar Degas. Café-Concert (The Spectators), 1876/77. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00005969

    Café-Concert (The Spectators)

    by Edgar Degas

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    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.

    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
    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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