©Victoria and Albert Museum, Londres

Study for the Opera Robert le Diable de Meyerbeer

[Etude pour l'opéra Robert le Diable de Meyerbeer]

MS : 3701
Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum, Londres - Royaume-Uni
Inv. E. 38-1919

The Artwork

Dimensions
36.6 × 28.1 cm - 14 7/16 × 11 1/16 in.
Period
Circa 1872
Medium
Sépia d'encre au pinceau
Support
Papier brun
Stamp
Vente Degas (en bas à gauche)

Additional information

History

Atelier Degas - Vente Degas, 1919, III, n° 364.2 (repr.) - Paris, galerie Knoedler - Victoria and Albert Museum, 1919.

One of four sheets [E.2686 to 3688-1919] of studies of nuns for the oil painting, "The Ballet Scene from Meyerbeer's Robert il Diavolo", in the Ionides Collection [CAI.19]. On the back of E.3695-1919 is another similar study.

Exhibitions

Saint-Louis, Philadelphie, Minneapolis, 1967, Drawings by Degas, n° 64, repr. p. 105 - Nottingham, University Art Gallery, 1969, Pastels and Drawings by Degas, n° 15 - Tübingen, Berlin, 1984, Degas. Pastelle, Ölskizzen, Zeichnungen, cat. 84 (repr.) - Detroit, Philadelphie, 2002-2003, Degas et la danse, n° 56, repr. p. 56 - Londres, Royal Academy of Arts, 2011, Degas and the Ballet. Picturing Movement, n° 16, repr. p. 53Melbourne, Houston, 2016-2017, Degas : A New Vision, (n.n.), repr. p. 90 - Paris, Washington, 2019-2020, fig. 115 c, repr. p. 128.

Bibliography

Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engravings, Illustration & Design. and Department of Paintings. Accession 1919 -  Browse, [1949], Degas Dancers, n° 6 (repr.) - Mayne, "Degas's Ballet Scene from Robert le Diable", Victoria & Albert Museum Bulletin, II, 1966, n° 15 - Boggs, Cat. exp. Saint-Louis, Philadelphie, Minneapolis, 1967, Drawings by Degas, n° 64, repr. p. 105 - DeVonyar, Kendall, Cat. exp. Londres, Royal Academy of Arts, 2011, Degas and the Ballet. Picturing Movement, n° 16, repr. p. 53 - Loyrette, Cat. exp. Melbourne, Houston, 2016-2017, Degas : A New Vision, repr. p. 90 - Jarbouai, Cat. exp. Paris, Washington, 2019-2020, fig. 115 c, repr. p. 128.

Last updated : 16/02/2026