Edgar Degas
Ballet Girl
1881
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
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Manet, Degas, Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt', April 18 - June 3, 1962, p. 56, no. 67
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'(?)
