©Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis

The violist

[L'altiste]

MS : 3938
Museum
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis - Minnesota - Etats-Unis
Inv. 72.59

The Artwork

Dimensions
24.5 × 31.8 cm - 9 5/8 × 12 1/2 in.
Period
Circa 1878
Medium
Craie noire
Support
Papier crème
Stamp
Vente Degas (en bas à gauche)

Additional information

History

Atelier Degas - Vente Degas, 1919, III, n° 164.2 (repr.) - Marcel Guérin, Paris - Galerie Charles E. Slatkin, New York - David Daniels, New York - Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1972  [Don en mémoire de David Daniels].

Exhibitions

New York, Charles E. Slatin Galleries, 1958, Degas, n° 25 (repr.) - New York, The Metropolitan Museum, 1959, French Drawings from American Collections. Clouet to Matisse, n° 98 (repr.) - Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1962, Degas, Morisot, Mary Cassatt, n° 62 - Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1962, Selections from the Drawing Collection of David Daniels, n° 54 - Williamstown, Clark Art Institute, 1970, An Exhibition of the Works of Edgar Degas, n° 26 (repr.) - New York, galerie Wildenstein, 1972, Faces from the Word of Imressionisms and Post-Impressionism - Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1968, Selections Memorial Exhibition for Harry D. M. Grier - Edimbourg, National Gallery of Scotland, 1979, Degas 1879, n° 23, repr. p. 22 - - Tübingen, Berlin, 1984, Degas. Pastelle, Ölskizzen, Zeichnungen, cat. 137 (repr.).

Bibliography

Browse, [1949], Degas Dancers, n° 35 (repr.) - Mongan, The French Pictures. An Illustrated Catalogue of the Works in nthe Collection of Henry Clay Frick, Pittsburgh, 1949, p. 178 - Haverkamp-Begemannn, 1964, p. 83 (repr.) - "Recent Acquisitions of American and Canadian Museums", The Art Quarterly,  XXXV, avril-juin 1972, p. 449  (repr.).  

Last updated : 16/02/2026