Dancers in Repose

ca. 1898

Edgar Degas French, 1834-1917

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Title Dancers in Repose

Artwork Date ca. 1898

Artist Edgar Degas

Life Dates 1834-1917

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Pastel and charcoal on thin wove paper fully attached to a thin supporting sheet

Dimensions Mount: 26 1/2 × 20 3/4 inches (67.3 × 52.7 cm) Framed: 34 × 27 3/4 × 2 inches (86.4 × 70.5 × 5.1 cm)

Classification Drawings

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Gift of Edward E. Rothman

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 72.441

Markings

Inscriptions Inscribed, in pencil, lower right: 4 Inscribed, in blue pencil, center, verso: 1114 Inscribed, vertically along lower right edge, verso: Db 288 Inscribed, in pencil, lower left: 72 x 68

Marks Stamp, in red ink, lower left (on the paper tape surrounding the sheet): degas (Lugt 658) Stamp, in red, center, verso: atelier Degas (Lugt 657)

Provenance

Edgar Degas (Sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 1918, no. 285)

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Durand-Ruel (Paris, France)

Albert Kahn (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Ruth Kahn Rothman (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA). 1972-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Lemoisne, P. A. Degas et son Oeuvre. Paris, 1946, vol. 3, no. 1243.

Bulletin of the DIA 52, 1 (1973): pp. 14, 25 (ill.).

Reff, Theodore "Works by Degas in the Detroit Institute of Arts." Bulletin of the DIA 53, 1 (1974): pp. 24, 42 (ill.).

Masson, Olivier. "Les danseuses au repos d'Edgar Degas." Pastels du 16e au 21e siècle. Exh. cat., Fondation de l'Hermitage. Lausanne, 2018, pp. 79, 81 (fig. 3).

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Edgar Degas, Dancers in Repose, ca. 1898, pastel and charcoal on thin wove paper fully attached to a thin supporting sheet. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Edward E. Rothman, 72.441.