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Dancer Onstage

ca. 1877
Not on view
Shortly after it was completed about 1877, Degas gave this picture to Alexis Rouart and his wife. Rouart was an old friend and former schoolmate, but Degas was even closer to his brother Henri, an amateur painter whose impressive collection of works by Degas included the great Dancers Practicing at the Bar (29.100.34). Dancer Onstage later passed to Alexis’s son Henri.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Dancer Onstage
  • Artist: Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris)
  • Date: ca. 1877
  • Medium: Gouache over graphite underdrawing on thin wove commercially coated yellow paper, laid down on board
  • Dimensions: Paper 6 3/4 x 8 3/8 in. (17.1 x 21.3 cm); board 7 x 9 in. (17.8 x 22.9 cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: The Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection, Bequest of Emma A. Sheafer, 1973
  • Object Number: 1974.356.30
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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