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Dancers in Repose Edgar Degas
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James Bowdoin

Date: 1746/1747
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: Framed: 56 3/4 x 46 7/8 x 2 5/8 in. Canvas width is 40" at part.: 51 1/8 x 40 1/8 in. (129.9 x 101.9 cm)
Department: American Art before 1950
Classification: Paintings
Credit: Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund
Accession No.: 58.354
Provenance: Elizabeth Bowdoin, the sitter's daughter (Mrs. James Pitts), Boston; S. Lendall Pitts (her great-great-great-grandson), Detroit; Mrs. S. Lendall Pitts, Norfolk, Virginia. DIA in 1958, Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-William Fund
Keywords: canvas, oil, paint, three quarter length, portrait

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