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Russian Dancers

Artist:
Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris)
Date:
1899
Medium:
Charcoal and pastel, on tracing paper, mounted on cardboard
Dimensions:
24 3/4 x 25 1/2 in. (62.9 x 64.8 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession Number:
1975.1.166
Not on view
Signature: Stamped in red ink (lower left): Degas [Lugt 658]
1st Degas studio sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 6-8, 1918, no. 266 (as Ballet russe [trois danseuses]); bought by Danthon, Paris; M. and Mme Riché [?], Richer [?], or Richez [?], Paris; Monsieur R[Riché, Richer, or Richez]. Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 17, 1938, no. 120 (as Ballet russe [trois danseuses]); Van Houten; Succession de Monsieur Van Houten sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 12, 1953c, no. 8 (as Ballets russes, trois dansueses); Untitled sale, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, June 15, 1954, no. 80 (as Trois Ballerines en costume russe, 1895); acquired by Robert Lehman, New York, 1954.

Essays
American Impressionism
Claude Monet (1840–1926)
Edgar Degas (1834–1917): Bronze Sculpture
Edgar Degas (1834–1917): Painting and Drawing
Édouard Manet (1832–1883)
Impressionism: Art and Modernity
Japonisme
Lithography in the Nineteenth Century
The Lure of Montmartre, 1880–1900
Mary Stevenson Cassatt (1844–1926)
The Print in the Nineteenth Century
The Salon and The Royal Academy

Timelines
France, 1800–1900 A.D.

Degas, 1834–1917
European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born before 1865: A Summary Catalogue
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide
The Robert Lehman Collection. Vol. 3, Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Paintings

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