Edgar Degas
Dancer Onstage
c. 1877171 x 213 mm
Gouache over graphite underdrawing on thin wove commercially coated yellow paper, laid down on board
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection, Bequest of Emma A. Sheafer, 1973
Provenance
M. and Mme Alexis Rouart, Paris (given to them by the artist in about 1877; his d. 1911)
their son, Henry Rouart, Paris (in 1933)
with Hector Brame, Paris, in 1946
with A. & R. Ball, New York, until 1950
sold on November 13 for $7,000 to Sheafer
Mr. and Mrs. Lesley G. Sheafer, New York (1950-his d. 1956)
Emma A. Sheafer, New York (1956-d. 1973)
Other works by Edgar Degas
Portrait of Hortense Valpinçon (Mme. Jacques Fourchy)
1883
1883
Two Dancers
1873
1873
Study for Mme Théodore Gobillard (née Yves Morisot)
1869
1869
Édouard Manet Seated, Right Profile
c. 1865
c. 1865
Study for Vieille Italienne (recto)
1856
1856