Edgar Degas

Study of a Ballet Dancer



Edgar Degas - Study of a Ballet Dancer



Edgar Degas
Study of a Ballet Dancer
c. 1873
445 x 314 mm
Oil paint heightened with body color on prepared pink paper
Stamped in red, lower left: degas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


Provenance


Degas studio sale III, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, December 1918, nr. 235
Philip Hofer, Cambridge, Massachusetts, by mid-1930's
Robert Lehman, acquired from Philip Hofer in 1948

External links


Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 1975.1.611

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