Edgar Degas
Ballet Dancer Standing
1885
Physical Qualities
Conté crayon with stumping, heightened with white chalk and pastel, on blue-gray paper, Sheet: 303 x 238 mm. (11 15/16 x 9 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number
1950.12.659
Frontal view of a dancer who leans forward at the waist, foreshortening the torso, and pulls at the straps of her bodice. Her head is bent forward and tilted to the side. Additional sketches of a leg and one arm.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1950; Etta Cone (1870-1949), Baltimore, by purchase 1922; Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1918; 2nd Degas Sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, Dec. 11-13, 1918, p. 121, no. 218a (1,700 francs for two drawings); collection of the artist.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Selections from the Cone Collection', Fall 1949, p. 32 in News of the Baltimore Museum of Art, XIII:1 (October 1949).
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'From Ingres to Gauguin', Nov. 13-Dec. 30, 1951. p. 35, no. 105, ill. p. 4.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Manet, Degas, Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt', April 18-June 3, 1962, p. 56, no. 63.
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL, "Au Théâtre," Jan. 6 - 26, 1969.
Victor Carlson and Carol Hynning Smith, BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries"; circulated by the American Federation of Arts to the Guggenheim Museum, NY, 24 August - 7 October 1979; Des Moines Art Center, 19 November 1979 - 6 January 1980; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, 8 February - 16 March, 1980; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1 May - 22 June 1980 ; Denver Art Museum, 12 July - 24 August, 1980.
BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the 19th and 20th Centuries from the Museum Collection," 14 October - 28 November, 1982.
Götz Adriani, Kunsthalle, Tübingen, 'Degas: Pastels, Oil Sketches, Drawings,' Jan. 14-March 25, 1984, p. 384, no. 171; circulated to the Nationalgalerie, Berlin, April 4-May 20, 1984.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 'Masterpieces from the Cone Collection of The Baltimore Museum', October 1991-1992.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from The Cone Collection," 7 June - 27 August, 1995.
Jay Fisher, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from the Cone Collection," The Cleveland Museum of Art, 17 November, 1996 - 19 January, 1997; Seattle Art Museum 20 February - 20 April, 1997; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 18 May - 13 July, 1997.
Richard Kendall, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, 'Degas and the Little Dancer', Feb. 7-May 3, 1998, p. 175, no. 48; circulated to Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass., May 30-Sept. 8, 1998; Baltimore Museum of Art, Oct. 4, 1998-Jan. 3, 1999.
Jay McKean Fisher, William R. Johnston and Cheryl K. Snay, 'The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas,' organized by The Walters Art Museum and The Baltimore Museum of Art, circulated to The Walters Art Museum June 19, 2005 - September 11, 2005, The Birmingham Museum of Art February 9, 2006 - May 4, 2006, Tacoma Art Museum June 9, 2006 - September 7, 2006.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'From Ingres to Gauguin', Nov. 13-Dec. 30, 1951. p. 35, no. 105, ill. p. 4.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Manet, Degas, Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt', April 18-June 3, 1962, p. 56, no. 63.
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL, "Au Théâtre," Jan. 6 - 26, 1969.
Victor Carlson and Carol Hynning Smith, BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries"; circulated by the American Federation of Arts to the Guggenheim Museum, NY, 24 August - 7 October 1979; Des Moines Art Center, 19 November 1979 - 6 January 1980; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, 8 February - 16 March, 1980; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1 May - 22 June 1980 ; Denver Art Museum, 12 July - 24 August, 1980.
BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the 19th and 20th Centuries from the Museum Collection," 14 October - 28 November, 1982.
Götz Adriani, Kunsthalle, Tübingen, 'Degas: Pastels, Oil Sketches, Drawings,' Jan. 14-March 25, 1984, p. 384, no. 171; circulated to the Nationalgalerie, Berlin, April 4-May 20, 1984.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 'Masterpieces from the Cone Collection of The Baltimore Museum', October 1991-1992.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from The Cone Collection," 7 June - 27 August, 1995.
Jay Fisher, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from the Cone Collection," The Cleveland Museum of Art, 17 November, 1996 - 19 January, 1997; Seattle Art Museum 20 February - 20 April, 1997; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 18 May - 13 July, 1997.
Richard Kendall, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, 'Degas and the Little Dancer', Feb. 7-May 3, 1998, p. 175, no. 48; circulated to Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass., May 30-Sept. 8, 1998; Baltimore Museum of Art, Oct. 4, 1998-Jan. 3, 1999.
Jay McKean Fisher, William R. Johnston and Cheryl K. Snay, 'The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas,' organized by The Walters Art Museum and The Baltimore Museum of Art, circulated to The Walters Art Museum June 19, 2005 - September 11, 2005, The Birmingham Museum of Art February 9, 2006 - May 4, 2006, Tacoma Art Museum June 9, 2006 - September 7, 2006.
"The Baltimore Museum of Art: Celebrating a Museum," The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2014, p. 183.
Fisher, Jay McKean, et al. The Essence of Line: French drawings from Ingres to Degas. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005, p. 190-91, ill.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Newsletter of the Print and Drawing Society of the Baltimore Museum of Art,' Sept. 1998, Vol. XV, No.3, p. 1, ill.
The International Review published by The Drawing Society, Vol. XVII, No.1, May - June 1995, p.4, ill.
Ted Rose, Discovering Drawing, Worcester, Mass.: Davis Publication, 1995, ill. p. 207. Brenda Richardson, The Cone Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art, 1985, p. 173.
Baltimore Museum of Art, Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings in the Cone Collection, 1967, p. 72, no. 177, ill. p. 61.
'The Contents', The Baltimore Museum of Art: The Cone Wing (1957), p. 8.
Lilian Browse, Degas Dancers, Boston: Boston Book and Art Shop, 1949, p. 399, plate no. 193.
Carlson, Victor, and Carol Hynning Smith. Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: The Baltimore Museum of Art. New York, NY: The American Federation of Arts, 1979, pp. 51, ill.
Inscribed: RECTO: LL, red stamp, 'degas' (Lugt 658); VERSO: LL, red stamp, 'Atelier Ed. Degas' (Lugt 657); LL, blue crayon, [illegible].
