©Santa Barbara Museum of Art

Dancer preparing for a pirouette

[Danseuse se préparant à la pirouette]

MS : 3673
Museum
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara - Californie - Etats-Unis
Inv. 1941.2.8

The Artwork

Dimensions
23.5 × 32.4 cm - 9 1/4 × 12 3/4 in.
Period
Circa 1880
Medium
Crayon graphite
Support
Papier gtis clair
Stamp
Vente Degas (en bas à gauche)

Additional information

History

Atelier Degas - Vente Degas,1919, III, n° 119.2 (repr.) - Ambroise Vollard , Paris - Durand-Ruel ? - Scott & Fowles, New York - Wright S. Ludington -  Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1941 [Don Wirght S. Ludington]

Exhibitions

La Jolla, Art Center, 1955, Post Impressionists Show - Claremont, Laing Gallery, Scripps College, 1957, Exhibition of Drawings by Old Masters and Modern - Santa Barbara, Museum ,of Art, 1959, Drawings of Five Centuries : An Exhibition Dedicated to the Memory of Donald Bear, Founding Director of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art - Spokane, Cowles Museum of Eastern Washington State  Historical Society, 1961 - Eugene, University of Oregon, 1963, The Dance in Art - Saint-Louis, Minneapolis, Philadelphie, 1967, Drawings by Degas, n° 121, repr. p. 185 – Santa Barbara, Museum of Art, 1970, Drawings : The Collection of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art - Santa Barbara, Museum of Art, 1976, European Drawings in the Collection of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art - Santa Barbara, Museum of Art, 1982, Wright S. Ludington : Four Decades of Gifts to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art – Santa Barbara, Museum, of Art, 2018, Fauvism to Fascism.

Bibliography

Browse, [1949], Degas Dancers, fig. 127, p. 380 - Eugene, University of Oregon, 1963, The Dance in Art, n° 8 - Boggs, Cat. exp. Saint-Louis, Philadelphie, Minneapolis, 1967, Drawings by Degas, n° 121, repr. p. 185 - Alfred Moir, European Drawings in the Collection of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1976, pp. 39-40 - Wright S. Ludington : Four Decades of Gifts to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, p. 34 - Barbara Sparti, Judy van Zile, Elsie Dunin, Nancy Keller, Adrienne Kaepler : Imagine Dance : Visual Representations of Dancers and Dancing, 2011, p. 144.

Last updated : 07/02/2026