Edgar Degas
Dancers (Fan Design)
1873-1883
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Edgar Degas
Dancers (Fan Design)
1873-1883
Physical Qualities
Gouache (or distemper), powdered silver, and powdered composite metallic particles on cotton, 11 x 22 3/16 in. (27.9 x 56.4 cm.)
Credit Line
Fanny B. Thalheimer Memorial Fund
Object Number
1963.9
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase 1963; Richard H. Zinser, Forest Hills, New York, 1963; Klipstein und Kornfeld, Bern, Sale June 8, 1961, sale #100, lot 19; Paul Vallotton, Lausanne, Switzerland [ownership dates unknown]; Maurice Exsteens, Paris [as of 1946]; Gustave Pellet, Paris; Estate of Edgar Degas sale May 6-8, 1918, #329
Degas and the Art of Japan
The Dancer: Degas, Forain, and Toulouse-Lautrec
Degas/Cassatt
Degas: A New Vision
Degas/Cassatt (NGA)
Degas at the Opera
"Atelier Edgar Degas," Paris: Galerie George Petit, 1918-1919, p. 176, ill. no.329.
P. A. Lemoisne, "Degas et son Oeuvre," vol. II, Paris: Paul Brame and C. M. De Hauke, 1946, no. 555, p.310, ill. p. 311.
"Auktion 100," Berlin: Kilpstein and Kornfeld, June 8, 1961, p. 44, no. 19, ill. p. 45.
"Recent Accessions," Baltimore: BMA Art News, XXVII, 1964, ill. p. 52.
Jean Sutherland Boggs, "Drawings by Degas," St. Louis: City Art Museum of St. Louis, 1966, pp.148-152.
Gerald Needham, 'A Degas Fan,' "The Walters Art Gallery Bulletin," January 1976, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 1-2. ill. p. 1.
Mark Gerstein, 'Degas' Fans,' "Art Bulletin," March 1982, vol. LXIV, no. 1, pp. 105-118, ill. p. 113.
Monika Kopplin, "Kompositionen Im Halbrund": Staatsgalerie Stuttgart Graphische Sammlung, 1984, p. 130
Jill DeVonyar and Richard Kendall, "Degas and the Dance," New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2002, pp. 103, 171, ill.
Angela Wenzel, "Edgar Degas: Dance like a Butterfly", Prestel Verlag: Munich, 2002, p. 24.
Roberto Calasso, "La Folie Baudelaire", Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2012, p. 226
Anne Sefrioui, "Éventails impressionnistes," Paris, Citadelles & Mazenod, 2012, pp. 188-119, color ill.
Loyrette, Henri. Degas: A New Vision. Victoria, Australia: National Gallery of Art, Victoria; Houson, TX: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2016.
Loyrette, Henri, ed. Degas à L'Opéra. Paris: Musée D'Orsay / RMS - Grand Palais, 2019.
Loyrette, Henri. Degas at the Opéra. Paris: Musée D'Orsay/RMN - Grand Palais, 2019.
Inscribed: l/l, red stamp: Atelier Ed Degas; on mount face, red stamp: Atelier Ed Degas
