Edgar Degas

Two Dancers



Edgar Degas - Two Dancers



Edgar Degas
Two Dancers
c. 1879
63.8 x 48.9 cm
Charcoal and white chalk on green commercially coated wove paper
Signed lower left: Degas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
H.O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H.O. Havemeyer, 1929


Provenance


?with Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1882, bought from the artist on 26 January 1882, sold on 31 August 1882, to Deschamps
?Charles W. Deschamps, London, 1882-90, sold on 30 June 1890, to Durand-Ruel
?with Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1890-93, sent on 29 November 1893 to Durand-Ruel, New York
?with Durand-Ruel, New York, 1893-94, sold on 16 January 1894 to Havemeyer
?Mr. and Mrs. H.O. Havemeyer, New York, 1894-his death 1907
Mrs. H.O. (Louisine W.) Havemeyer, New York, ?1907, definitely by 1922-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 29.100.189

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Edgar Degas Studies after Two Italian Madonnas
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