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Identification and Creation

Object Number
45.1965
People
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, French (Paris, France 1834 - 1917 Paris, France)
Title
Dancer Rubbing her Knee
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
19th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/232404

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze with brown patina
Dimensions
31 x 14.2 x 24.2 cm (12 3/16 x 5 9/16 x 9 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: stamped proper center right: Degas
  • foundry mark: proper left rear, relief: CIRE / PERDUE / AA HÉBRARD
  • foundry mark: proper left rear, incised: 39 / K

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Edouard Sandoz.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Loan from the Collection of Edouard Sandoz
Object Number
45.1965
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Marjorie B. Cohn and Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas at Harvard, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums/Yale University Press (Cambridge and New Haven, 2005), no. 17, p. 103; repr. in b/w as fig. 52, p. 102

Exhibition History

  • Degas at Harvard, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/2005 - 11/27/2005

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