Deux danseuses

Circa 1879
Lavis foncé et goauche blanche sur papier riose
61,3 x 39,4 cm - 24 1/8 x 15 1/2 in.
Signé en bas à droite : Degas
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Etats-Unis - Inv. 29.100.189
Dernière mise à jour : 2024-10-20 14:20:23
Référence : MS-3010

History

?[Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1882; stock no. 2184 as "Danseuses"; bought from the artist on January 26, 1882, for Fr 500; sold on August 31, 1882, for Fr 800 to Deschamps]; ?Charles W. Deschamps, London (1882–90; sold on June 30, 1890, for Fr 800 to Durand-Ruel); ?[Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1890–93; stock no. 567; sent on November 29, 1893 to Durand-Ruel, New York]; ?[Durand-Ruel, New York, 1893–94; stock no. 1105; sold on January 16, 1894 to Havemeyer]; ?Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, New York (1894–his d. 1907); Mrs. H. O. (Louisine W.) Havemeyer, New York (?1907, definitely by 1922–d. 1929; cat., 1931, p. 185, ill. p. 187)

Exhibitions

New York, Grolier Club, 1922, Prints, Drawings and Bronzes by Degas, n° 90 - New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1930, The H. O. Havemeyer Collection, n° 162 [2eme édition 1958, n° 134] - Washington. Phillips Memorial Gallery, 1947, Loan Exhibition of Drawings & Pastels by Edgar Degas, 1947, n° 6 - New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1977, "Degas in the Metropolitan, n° 25 (des oeuvres sur papier) – Paris, Ottawa, New York, 1988-1989,  "Degas, n° 138 - New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993, Splendid Legacy: The Havemeyer Collection, n° A207 - Washington. Phillips Collection, 2011-2012, Degas's Dancers at the Barre: Point and Counterpoint, n° 8.

Bibliography

 H. O. Havemeyer Collection: Catalogue of Paintings, Prints, Sculpture and Objects of Art. n.p., 1931, p. 185 - Lemoisne. Degas et son œuvre, 1946–1949, vol. 3, pp. 584–85, n° 1005 (repr.) - Lillian Browse. Degas Dancers, New York, [1949], p. 347, pl. 33 - Jean Sutherland Boggs. "Degas Notebooks at the Bibliothèque Nationale III: Group C (1863–1886), " Burlington Magazine, juillet 1958, p. 245, le rapproche de deux études dans les carnets Degas de la Bibliothèque Nationale en date de 1978-1884 - Fiorella Minervino in L'opera completa di Degas. Milan, 1970, pp. 133–34, n° 1061 (repr.) [Edition française en 1974] - Charles S. Moffett. Degas: Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1979, p. 12 (repr. Couleur p. 25), le date de 1878–80 et écrit qu’il s’agit-là d’une « peinture à l'essence" - George Shackelford. Degas: The Dancers. Cat. exp.  National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1984, p. 77, fig. 3.4 - Richard Thomson. The Private Degas. Cat. exp.  Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 1987, p. 113, fig. 148 - Gary Tinterow, Degas, Cat. exp.  Paris, Ottawa, New York, 1988-1989, pp. 243–44, n° 138 (repr.) - Michael Pantazzi, Degas, Cat. exp. Paris, Ottawa, New, 1988-1989, p. 349 - Robert Gordon, Andrew Forge. Degas, 1988, p. 277 (repr. p. 177) - Louisine W. Havemeyer. Sixteen to Sixty: Memoirs of a Collector. Ed. Susan Alyson Stein. 3rd ed. [1ere édition  en 1930 puis 1961]. New York, 1993, pp. 257, 337 n. 376] - Susan Alyson Stein in Splendid Legacy: The Havemeyer Collection, Cat. exp. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1993, p. 285 - Gretchen Wold in Splendid Legacy: The Havemeyer Collection, Cat. exp.  The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1993, pp. 326–27, n° A207 (repr.) - Katharine Baetjer. European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born Before 1865: A Summary Catalogue. New York, 1995, p. 452 (repr.) - Eliza Rathbone in Degas's Dancers at The Barre: Point and Counterpoint, Cat. exp. Phillips Collection. Washington, 2011, pp. 28, 129, n° 8 (repr. pp. 31, 101) - Aimee Marcereau DeGalan, French Paintings and Pastels, 1600–1945: The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, 2021, non paginé  [https://doi.org/10.37764/78973.5.614.5407].