Edgar Degas

Dancers in the Rehearsal Room with a Double Bass

Edgar Degas

Dancers in the Rehearsal Room with a Double Bass

c. 1882-85
39.1 x 89.5 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left: Degas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
H.O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H.O. Havemeyer, 1929

Provenance

with Alexander Reid, Glasgow, by 1891-92, sold in 1892 to Kay
Arthur Kay, Glasgow, 1892-93, sold in April 1893 to Martin et Camentron
with Martin et Camentron, Paris, 1893-95, sold on 28 May 1895, to Durand-Ruel
with Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1895, sold on 20 November to Durand-Ruel, New York
with Durand-Ruel, New York, 1895-96, sold on 23 March 1896, to Milliken
E.F. Milliken, New York, 1896-1902
his sale, American Art Association, New York, 14 February 1902, nr. 11, to Durand-Ruel for Havemeyer
Mr. and Mrs. H.O. Havemeyer, New York, 1902-his death 1907
Mrs. H.O. (Louisine W.) Havemeyer, New York, 1907-died 1929
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, H.O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H.O. Havemeyer, 1929

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 29.100.127

Other works by Edgar Degas

Woman Combing Her Hair
c. 1886

Semiramis Building Babylon
1861

Portrait of Joseph-Henri Altès
1868

The Ballet from "Robert le Diable"
1871

Two Men
c. 1865-69