©The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Young dancer exercising

[Jeune danseuse à l'exercice ]

MS : 3039
Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - New York - Etats-Unis
Inv. 29.100.943

The Artwork
Dimensions
31 × 29.3 cm - 12 3/16 × 11 9/16 in.
Period
Circa 1878
Medium
Craie noire et crayon graphite rehaussé de craie blanche
Support
Papier beige rosé
Signature
en bas à droite : Degas
Annotation
en bas à droite : cf. l'historique

Additional information

History

Atelier Degas - H. O. Havemeyer, New York - New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1929  [Don Havemeyer].

[Diverses incriptions au recto : en haut à gauche : bien accuser/l'os du coude - en bas à  droite : battements à la seconde/à la barre - Inscriptions au verso : en bas à gauche au crayon graphite : Mrs H et monogramme HOH au centre d'un cercle + Dancer/Barre/Degas

Exhibitions

New York, The Grolier Club, 1922, Drawings and Bronzes by Degas - New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1930, The H. O. Havemeyer Collection, n° 221, repr. p. 330 - San Francisco Fine Arts Museums-California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1947, Nineteenth Century French Drawings, n° 88 - New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1977, Degas in the Metropolitan , n° 24 - Tübingen, Berlin, 1984, Degas. Pastelle, Ölskizzen, Zeichnungen, cat. 116 (repr.) - Paris, Ottawa, New York, 1988-1989, Degas, n° 213, repr. p. 328 - New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993, Splendid Legacy : The Havemeyer Collection, cat. 221, repr. p. 330 - Omaha, Joslyn Art Museum, 1998, Degas and the Little Dancer, n° 12, p. 173 - Williamstown, Sterling and  Francine Clark Art Institute, 1998, Degas and the Little Dancer, n° 12, p. 173 - Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1998-1999, Degas and the Little Dancer, n° 12, p. 173 - Portland, Portland Art Museum, 2008, The Dancer : Degas, Forain, Toulouse-Lautrec, pl. 154, repr. p. 212 - Londres, Royal Academy of Arts, 2011, Degas and the Ballet. Picturing the Movement, n° 49, repr. p. 131 - Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, 2016, Degas : A New Vision, (n. n.), repr. p. 102.

Bibliography

Burroughs, mai 1919, Drawings by Degas in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, vol. 14, n° 5 - The H. O. Havemeyer Collection : Catalogue of Paintings, Prints, Sculpture and Objects of Art, 1931 [A compte d'auteur] - Mehring, European Drawings from the Collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1942-1944 - Browse, [1949], Degas Dancers - The H. O. Havemeyer Collection, 1958, The Metropolitan Museum - Louisine Havemeyer, Sixteen to Sixty. Memoirs of a Collector, 1961 - Linda Boyer Gillies, "European Drawings in the Havemeyer Collection", Connoisser, vol. 172, n° 696, novembre 1969 - Moffett, Degas in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cat. exp. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1977, n° 24 - Weitzenhofffer, The Creation of the Havemeyer Collection, University Microfilms International, 1982 - Götz Adriani, Cat. exp. Tübingen, Kunsthalle; Berlin, Nationalgalerie, 1984, Edgar Degas : Pastelle, Ölskissen, Zeichnungen, cat. 116 (repr.) - Barbara Burn, Metropolitan Children, 1984 - Weitzenhoffer, The Havemeyers : Impressionism comes to America, 1986 - Horst Keller, Degas, 1988 - Boggs, Druick, Loyrette, Pantazzi, Tinterow, Cat. exp. Degas, Paris, Ottawa, New York, 1988-1989 - Cooney Frelinghuysen, Tinterow, Cat. exp. Splendid Legacy : the Havemeyer Collection, 1993 - Kalman Meller, "Exercices in and aroung Degas's Classroms : Part III", Burlington Magazine, juillet 1993 - Beale, Druick, Kendall, Cat. exp. Degas and the Little Dancer, Omaha, Williamstown, Baltimore, 1998-1999 - Dixon, Chapin, DeVonyar, Kendall, Valdès-Forain, Cat. exp. Portland, Seattle, 2008, The Dancers : Degas, Forain, Toulouse-Lautrec - DeVonyar, Kendall, Cat. exp. Londres, Royal Academy of Arts, Degas and the Ballet. Picturing Movement, 2011, n° 49, repr. p. 131 - Loyrette, Cat. exp. Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, 2016, Degas : A New Vision, (n.n.), repr. p. 102.

Last updated : 09/02/2026

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