Edgar Degas
Study of a Ballet Dancer seen from the Back
1875 (?)30.8 x 21.8 cm
Black chalk on faded pink wove paper
Marking: Studio stamp in red on the verso (lower right): Atelier/ Ed. Degas
Collector's stamp: Sammlung/ OB
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Provenance
Anthony d'Offay, London
Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd., London by 1967
Robert Lehman, acquired from Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd. in 1968
Other works by Edgar Degas
Édouard Manet, Seated, Holding His Hat
c. 1865
c. 1865
After the Bath
Portrait of Édouard Manet
c. 1866-68
c. 1866-68
Miss La La at the Fernando Circus
1879
1879
Nude study