©Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Before the curtains rise
[Avant le lever du rideau]
MS : 1645
- Museum
- Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford - Connecticut - Etats-Unis
- Inv. 1956. 477
The Artwork
- Dimensions
- 51 × 34 cm - 20 1/16 × 13 3/8 in.
- Period
- 1892
- Medium
- Pastel
- Support
- Papier
- Signature
- en haut à droite : Degas
- Lemoisne
- IV-1116, p. 645
Additional information
History
Atelier Degas - Paul Cassirer, Berlin - Durand-Ruel & Cie, Paris - Mme R. Brooks, Paris - Ella Gallup Summer et Mary Summer - Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1956.
Exhibitions
New York, Wildenstein & Cie., 1960, n° 55 (repr.) - New York, Acquavella Galleries, 1978, Edgar Degas, n° 48 (repr.) - Melbourne, Houston, 2016-2017, Degas : A New Vision, (n.n.), repr. p. 173.
Bibliography
Kunst & Künstler, 1911-1912, repr. p. 341 - Meier-Graefe, 1923, pl. 89 - Lemoisne, 1946-1949, IV, n° 1116, repr. p. 645 - Wadsworth Athneum, Hartford, 1958, repr. p. 133 - Lassaigne, Minervino, 1974, n° 1158, repr. p. 138 et pl. LVII - Werner, 1977, n° 20, repr. p. 58 - Zurich, Tübingen, 1994-1995, repr. p. 78 - Paris, Amsterdam, New York, 2001, fig. 5, repr. p. 59 - Zafran, Masters of French Paintings at the Wadsworth Atheneum, 2012, n° 97, repr. p. 211.
Last updated : 04/07/2026