Edgar Degas
Mademoiselle Bécat at the Café des Ambassadeurs
1877-1878
Physical Qualities
Crayon and tusche lithograph with scraping, transferred from three monotypes, Sheet: 352 x 273 mm. (13 7/8 x 10 3/4 in.)
Image: 293 x 244 mm. (11 9/16 x 9 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Blanche Adler Memorial Fund
Object Number
1960.100
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1960; R.M. Light; A. Beurdeley (Lugt 421); Philip Hofer (Lugt 2087a)
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL, "Au Théâtre," Jan. 6 - 26, 1969.
Jay Fisher, "Peintre Graveur: 19th Century French Prints from the Collection," Baltimore Museum of Art, 7 September-31 October, 1976.
"Master Prints II: Daumier to Picasso," Baltimore Museum of Art, 25 October, 1983 - 15 January, 1984.
Jay Fisher, "Two Centuries of Lithography: 1800-1986," Baltimore Museum of Art, 8 September-8 November 1987.
Jay Fisher, "Degas and the Little Dancer in Context," Baltimore Museum of Art, 4 October 1998-3 January 1999.
Susan Dackerman, BMA (only), "Toulouse-Lautrec: Master of the Moulin Rouge," February 15 - May 23, 2004.
"Degas and the Art of Japan," Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania, September 29-December 30, 2007, no. 36, p. 105, ill. p. 44.
Jay Fisher, "Peintre Graveur: 19th Century French Prints from the Collection," Baltimore Museum of Art, 7 September-31 October, 1976.
"Master Prints II: Daumier to Picasso," Baltimore Museum of Art, 25 October, 1983 - 15 January, 1984.
Jay Fisher, "Two Centuries of Lithography: 1800-1986," Baltimore Museum of Art, 8 September-8 November 1987.
Jay Fisher, "Degas and the Little Dancer in Context," Baltimore Museum of Art, 4 October 1998-3 January 1999.
Susan Dackerman, BMA (only), "Toulouse-Lautrec: Master of the Moulin Rouge," February 15 - May 23, 2004.
"Degas and the Art of Japan," Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania, September 29-December 30, 2007, no. 36, p. 105, ill. p. 44.
Inscribed: by later hand, lower left in graphite: "Aux ambassadeurs Mlle Becat"; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: "B2853"; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: "OWX"
Markings: CM: A Beurdeley (Lugt 421 & supp. 421); CM: Philip Hofer (Lugt 2087a)
