©Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown

The violinist - Study for La répétition

[Le violoniste - Etude pour La répétition ]

MS : 3058
Museum
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown - Massachusetts - Etats-Unis
Inv. 1955. 1395

The Artwork

Dimensions
45.5 × 30.3 cm - 17 15/16 × 11 15/16 in.
Period
1879
Medium
Fusain rehaussé de craie noire
Support
Papier gris
Stamp
Vente Degas (en bas à gauche)

Additional information

History

Atelier Degas - Vente Degas, 1919, III, n° 161.2 (repr.) - Albert Pra - Vente Pra, Paris, galerie Charpentier, 17 juin 1938, n° 10 - Durand-Ruel & Cie., Paris - Vendu à Robert Sterling Clark en 1938 - Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.

Exhibitions

Edimbourg, National Gallery of Scotland, 1979, Degas 1879, n° 22, repr. p. 22 - Williamstown, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1987, Degas in the Clark Collection, n° 31, repr. p. 50 - Paris, Washington, 2019-2020, Degas à l'Opéra, fig. 215, repr. p. 209.

Bibliography

Haverkamp-Begemann, Lawder, Talbot, Drawings from the Clark Art Institute : A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings. Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown1964 - Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Exhibit Ten : Degas, Cat. exp. Williamstown, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1959 - Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Exhibit Thirty : A Selection of Nineteenth Century French Drawings, Cat. exp. Williamstown, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1965 - New York, Wildenstein & Cie.,  An Exhibition of Treasures from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Paintings, drawings & rare silver for the benefit of the Committee to Rescue Italian Art, Cat. exp. 1967 - Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Edgar Degas, Cat. exp. Williamstown, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970 - New York, Frick Collection, 14-26 novembre 1972 - Edimbourg, National Galleries of Scotland, Degas, 13 août-30 septembre 1979 - Edimbourg, Edinburgh International Festival, Cat. Ronald Pickvance, Fernandez Rafael, Alexandra Murphy, Degas in the Clark Collection, Cat. exp. Williamstown, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1987, n° 31, repr. p. 50 - Brooke, David, Master Drawings : Robert Sterling Clark as a Collector, Cat. exp. Williamstown, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1995 - Browse, [1949], Degas - Peter A., "Degas' Violinist", Boston Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin, 57, 1959, pp. 93, 97-98 -  R. F. C.. "Le opere di Degas alla collezione Clark", Emporium, 132, 787, juillet 1960 -  Brooke David, Rafael Fernandez, Beth Carver Wees, Three Cheers for the Twenty-Fifth, Cat. exp. Williamstown, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1980 - Paris, Washington, 2019-2020, Degas à l'Opéra, fig. 215, repr. p. 209.

Last updated : 10/02/2026