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Edgar Degas

Ballet Girl

1881-1883

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Edgar Degas

Ballet Girl

1881-1883

Physical Qualities Charcoal with stumping, Sheet: 546 x 294 mm. (21 1/2 x 11 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Blanche Adler
Object Number 1934.49.1
Woman standing, roughly in profile, viewed from above. Her proper left arm is held slightly in front of her body. Erasures indicate that Degas changed the position of the head so that it is less foreshortened.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1934; Blanche Adler (1877(?)-1941), Baltimore; Ferdinand Roten, Baltimore
Degas and Rodin - The Race of the Giants Towards the Modern

Inscribed: Verso: LCtr, (blue crayon), '12[?]96'; LL, (blue crayon), '858'; LCtr, (red stamp), 'Atelier Ed. Degas' (Lugt 658); LowerCtr, (black stamp), 'B.A.', (Lugt Suppl. 343a); LR, erased graphite, 'Degas'(?)

Artist

Edgar Degas

1833–1916

French, 1834-1917
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