- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1965.264
- People
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Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, French (Paris, France 1834 - 1917 Paris, France)
- Title
- Sketches of Dancers
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1876-1877
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/296580
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Brown ink with touches of blue watercolor on off-white laid paper
- Dimensions
- 20.1 x 25.1 cm (7 15/16 x 9 7/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- watermark: A. Pirie & Son / 1876
- inscription: lower left, graphite: croquis d'Ingres[?] [partially erased]
- Provenance
- Garbis Kalebjian; Paul J. Sachs, 1927, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
- Accession Year
- 1965
- Object Number
- 1965.264
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Henri Rivière, ed., Les Dessins de Degas, Demotte (Paris, France, 1922 - 1923), pl. 25
Exhibition of French Painting of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1929), no. 23
Robert Allerton Parker, "Notes on Drawings at the Fogg Museum", The International Studio (January 1930), vol. 95, no. 392, pp. 36-40, p. 39, repr. p. 40
Degas, 1834-1917, exh. cat., Pennsylvania Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA, 1936), no. 79, repr.
Winslow Ames, Drawings: Fourth Anniversary Exhibition, exh. cat., Lyman Allen Museum (New London, CT, 1936), cat. no. 157
Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 664, fig. 340
Masterpieces of 19th and 20th Century French Drawing from the Fogg Museum..., brochure, Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI, 1941), checklist no. 17
Monroe Wheeler, ed., Modern Drawings, exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art, New York (New York, NY, 1944), p. 90
A Special Exhibition of Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, exh. cat., Speed Memorial Museum (Louisville, KY, 1947), cat. no. 24
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Letters, ed. Marcel Guérin, Bruno Cassirer (Oxford, England, 1948), ill. 13 (left half of drawing only)
Lillian Browse, Degas Dancers, The Studio Publications Incorporated (New York, NY, 1949), repr. (detail) on title page
Agnes Mongan, French Drawings of Five Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, 1951), cat. no. 34, n.p.
Pierre Cabanne, Edgar Degas, Editions Pierre Tisné (Paris, France, 1958), repr. pp. 42, 43 (details)
Degas' drawings, Dover Publications Inc. (New York, NY, 1973), pl. 53
Linda D. Muehlig, Degas and the dance, exh. cat., Smith College Museum of Art (Northampton, MA, 1979), no. 11, repr.
Richard Kendall, Degas and the Little Dancer, exh. cat., Yale University Press/Joslyn Art Museum (New Haven, CT & London, England & Omaha, NE, 1998), no. 1, repr. in color
Marjorie B. Cohn and Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas at Harvard, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums/Yale University Press (Cambridge and New Haven, 2005), cat. no. 49, fig. 70
Richard Kendall, Daphne Barbour, and Shelley Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum: Nineteenth-Century Art, ed. Sara Campbell, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven, 2009), p. 156, repr. in b/w p. 157 as fig. 16c
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017), pp. 148-149, 284, repr. p. 149 as fig. 3
- Exhibition History
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French Painting of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/06/1929 - 04/06/1929
Drawings by Degas, City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, 01/01/1932 - 12/31/1932
Fourth Anniversary Exhibition; Drawings, Lyman Allen Museum, New London, 03/02/1936 - 04/15/1936
Degas, 1834-1917, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 11/01/1936 - 11/30/1936
The Ballet in Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Boston, 01/01/1938 - 01/31/1938
Great Modern French Drawings, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences Museum, Brooklyn, 01/01/1939 - 03/12/1939
Unidentified Exhibition, Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, 1941, Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, 02/01/1941 - 02/28/1941
Masterpieces of 19th and 20th Century French Drawing from the Fogg Museum of Art at Harvard University and the Museum of Modern Art of New York City, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 05/01/1941 - 06/01/1941
Master Drawings, Fogg Art Museum, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, 06/01/1943 - 08/31/1943
Untitled exhibition of French drawings, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 10/08/1943 - 11/21/1943
Modern Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, 02/15/1944 - 04/16/1944
Drawings by Degas, Farnsworth Art Museum (now Davis Museum and Cultural Center), Wellesley, 02/16/1946 - 03/10/1946
Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, 03/02/1947 - 03/30/1947
A Special Exhibition of Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Speed Memorial Museum, Louisville, KY, 03/02/1947 - 03/30/1947
Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collected by Paul J. Sachs), Century Club, New York, 05/12/1947 - 09/25/1947
French Drawings of Five Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 05/15/1951 - 09/30/1951
French Drawings from the Fogg Art Museum, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 03/28/1952 - 04/28/1952
Degas and the Dance, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, 04/05/1979 - 05/27/1979
Degas and the Little Dancer, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, 02/07/1998 - 05/03/1998; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 10/04/1998 - 01/03/1999
Degas at Harvard, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/2005 - 11/27/2005
Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/21/2017 - 05/07/2017
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