©Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham

At the cirque Fernando - Architectural study

[Au cirque Fernando - Etude architecturale ]

MS : 3132
Museum
Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham - Royaume-Uni
Inv. 38. 10

The Artwork
Dimensions
48 × 31.3 cm - 18 7/8 × 12 5/16 in.
Period
Circa 1879
Medium
Crayon noir et craie rouge
Support
Feuilles de papier jointes
Stamp
Vente Degas (en bas à gauche)

Additional information

History

Atelier Degas - Vente Degas, 1919, III, n° 225.b (repr.) - George Viau, Paris - Jacques Seligmann, Paris - Thomas Agnew & Sons, Londres - Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, 1938.

Exhibitions

Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, 1931, A Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Pastels by Degas, n° 19b - Paris, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1955, Degas dans les collections françaises, n° 91 bis - Saint-Louis, Philadelphie, Minneapolis, 1967, Drawings by Degas, n° 84 - Edimbourg, National Gallery of Scotland, 1979, Degas 1879, n° 46, repr. p. 49 - Tübingen, Berlin, 1984, Degas. Pastelle, Ölskizzen, Zeichnungen, cat. 131 (repr.).

Bibliography

Henri Rivière, Les dessins de Degas, 1922-1923, pl. 38 - Hanbook of the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, 1949, p. 19 - Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings and Miniatures in nthe Barber Institute of Fine Arts, 1952, pp. 132-133 - Cabanne, Degas, 1960, n° 95, p. 121 - Pecirka, Drawings by Degas, 1963, n° 39 - Boggs, Cat. exp. Saint-Louis, Philadelphie, Minneapolis, 1967, Drawings by Degas, n° 84, repr. p. 133 - Reff, The Artist's Mind, 1976, p. 180.

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