©Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven

The dance class

[La salle de danse]

MS : 248
Museum
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven - Connecticut - Etats-Unis
Inv. 1952.43.1

The Artwork
Dimensions
38 × 90 cm - 14 15/16 × 35 7/16 in.
Period
Circa 1890
Medium
Huile
Support
Toile
Signature
en bas à gauche : Degas
Lemoisne
IV-1107, p. 641

Additional information

History

Atelier Degas - Galerie Camentron, Paris - Durand-Ruel & Cie, Paris, 1897 - Durand-Ruel & Cie, New York, 1901 - Clarke, New York - Durand- Ruel, New York selon une lettre de Durand-Ruel en date du 22 mars 1963 - Duncan Phillips, Washington, 1928 - New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, 1952.

Exhibitions

Paris, galerie Paul Rosenberg, 1922, Grands maîtres du 19ème siècle, n° 37 - New York, Wildenstein & Cie, 1949, n° 79, repr. p. 56  - Los Angeles, County Museum, 1950, n° 60, repr. p. 62 - Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, 1952, n° 116 - Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1962, Manet, Degas, Morisot, Cassatt, n° 50, repr. p. 39 - New York, Acquavella Galleries, 1978, Edgar Degas, n° 46 (repr.) - Washington, National Gallery of Art, 1984-1985, Degas. The Dancers, n° 31, repr. p. 92 et p. 138-139 - New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, 2003, n° 13 (repr.) -  Rome, Complesso del Vittotiano, 2004-2005, Degas : Classico e moderno, n° 78, repr. p. 307.

Bibliography

Lafond, Degas, 1918-1919, I, pl. 85 - Meier-Graefe, Degas, 1923, pl. 52 - L'Amour de l'Art, 1931, pl. 34, p. 280 - Lemoisne, 1946-1949, IV, n° 1107, repr. p. 641 - Browse, [1949], Degas Dancers, pl. 114, p. 276 - Selected Paintings & Sculpture from the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 1972, pl. 79 (repr.) - Lassaigne, Minervino, 1974, n° 1059, repr. p. 134 - Thomson, 1988, Degas et les nus, p. 121, repr. p. 124 - Paris, Ottawa, New York, 1988-1989, Degas, p. 151 (repr.) - New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997-1998, The Private Collection of Edgar Degas, fig. 355, repr. p. 273 - Atlanta, Minneapolis, 2000-2001, Degas and America. The Early Collectors, repr. p. 191 - Detroit, Philadelphie, 2002-2003, pp. 110-117, 152-155 - Jennifer Gross, Edgar Degas : Defining the Modernist Edge, 2003, n° 13, repr. p. 49 - New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, 2003, pp. 48-50 - Karlsruhe, Staatliche Kunsthalle, 2014-2015, Degas : Klassik und Experiment, fig. 74.1, repr. p. 189.

Last updated : 15/04/2026

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