Edgar Degas

Two Dancers



Edgar Degas - Two Dancers



Edgar Degas
Two Dancers
1873
613 x 394 mm
Dark brown wash and white gouache on bright pink commercially coated wove paper, now faded to pale pink
Signed lower right: Degas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
H.O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929


Provenance


With Boussod, Valadon & Cie, Paris; possibly bought from the artist; probably sold to Havemeyer
Mrs. H.O. (Louisine W.) Havemeyer, New York (by 1922-d. 1929; cat., 1931, p. 185)

External links


Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 29.100.187

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