©Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge

Studies of dancers

[Etudes de danseuses]

MS : 3215
Museum
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge - Massachusetts - Etats-Unis
inv. 1965.264

The Artwork

Dimensions
20.1 × 25.1 cm - 7 15/16 × 9 7/8 in.
Period
Circa 1876
Medium
Encre brune avec touches d'aquarelle
Support
Papier crème

Additional information

History

Provenance antérieure indéterminée - Garbis Kalebjian - Paul J. Sachs, 1927 - Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, 1965 [Don Sachs].

Exhibitions

Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, 1929, French Painting of the 19th and 20th Centuries - Saint-Louis, City Art Museum, 1932, Drawings by Degas - New London,  Lyman Allen Museum, 1936, Fourth Anniversary Exhibition: Drawings - Philadelphie, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, 1936, Degas - Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, 1939, The Ballet in Art - Brooklyn, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences Museum, 1939, Great Modern French Drawing - Springfield, Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, 1941, Unidentified Exhibition - Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1941, Masterpieces of 19th and 20th Century French Drawing from the Fogg Museum of Art at Harvard University and the Museum of Modern Art of New York City - Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1943, Master Drawings, Fogg Art Museum - Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1943, Untitled exhibition of French drawings - New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1944, Modern Drawings - Wellesley, Farnsworth Art Museum (aujourd'hui Davis Museum and Cultural Center), 1946Drawings by Degas - Louisville,  Speed Memorial Museum, 1947Special Exhibition of Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art - New York, Century Club, 1947, Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collection Paul J. Sachs) - Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1961French Drawings of Five Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University - Richmond,  Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1952French Drawings from the Fogg Art Museum - Northampton, Smith College Museum of Art, 1979, Degas and the Dance - Omaha, Joslyn Art Museum, 1998-1999Degas and the Little Dancer - Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1998-1999, Degas and the Little Dancer - Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, 2005, Degas at Harvard, n° 49, fig. 70, repr. p. 114 - Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard Art Museums, 2017, Drawing : The Invention of Modern Medium.

Bibliography

Henri Rivière, Les dessins de Degas, 1922-1923, pl. 25 - Exhibition of French Painting of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Cat. exp.  Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 1929, n° 23 - Robert Allerton Parker, "Notes on Drawings at the Fogg Museum", The International Studio, janvier 1930, vol. 95, n° 392, pp. 36-40, repr. p. 40 - Degas, Cat. exp. Philadelphie, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, 1936, n° 79 (repr.) - Winslow Ames, Drawings : Fourth Anniversary Exhibition, Cat. exp. Lyman Allen Museum, New London, CT, 1936, cat. 157 - Agnes Mongan, Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press Cambridge, 1940, vol. 1, cat. n° 664, fig. 340 - Masterpieces of 19th and 20th Century French Drawing from the Fogg Museum..., brochure, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1941, checklist n° 17 - Monroe Wheeler, Modern Drawings, Cat. exp. New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1944, p. 90 - A Special Exhibition of Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Cat. exp.Louisville, Speed Memorial Museum, , 1947, cat. n° 24 - Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Letters, éd. Marcel Guérin, Bruno Cassirer, Oxford, 1948, fig. 13 (seulement le dessin) - Lillian Browse,[1949] Degas Dancers, repr. (Détail) - Agnes Mongan, French Drawings of Five Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cat. exp. Detroit Institute of Arts, 1951, cat. n° 34, (n.p) - Pierre Cabanne, Edgar Degas, éd. Pierre Tisné , 1958, repr. pp. 42, 43 (Détails) - Degas' drawings, Dover Publications Inc., New York, 1973, pl. 53 - Linda D. Muehlig, Degas and the dance, Cat. exp.Northampton, Smith College Museum of Art, 1979,  n° 11 (repr.) - Richard Kendall, Degas and the Little Dancer, Cat. exp. Yale University Press/Joslyn Art Museum, New Haven, Londres & Omaha, NE, 1998, n° 1 (repr. en couleur) - Cohn, Boggs, Cat. exp. Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, 2005, Degas at Harvard, n° 49, fig. 70, repr. p. 114 - Richard Kendall, Daphne Barbour, Shelley Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum: Nineteenth-Century Art, éd. Sara Campbell, Yale University Press (U.S.), New Haven, 2009, p. 156, repr. en n & b  p. 157, fig. 16c - Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing : The Invention of a Modern Medium, Cat. exp. Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard Art Museums, 2017, pp. 148-149, 284, repr. p. 149, fig. 3.

Last updated : 24/01/2026