DEGAS, Edgar

Maker: Hébrard, A.A.

[56/B] Etude de nu pour la danseuse habillée

[56/B] Study in the Nude for Dressed Dancer (Nude Dancer)

c. 1878-1880, cast executed between 1919 and 1921 from original wax

bronze

statuette

Dimensions (HxWxD): 28 ³⁄₄ x 13 x 11 in.

foundry mark, stamp, base, right rear: CIRE PERDUE / A A HEBRARD
signature, undated, base, rear: Degas
edition notation, foundry mark, base, right rear: 56/B

Acc. No.: 1935:13

Credit Line: Friends of Albright Art Gallery and Edwin J. Weiss Funds, 1935

Photo credit: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

© Artist : public domain

Buffalo, New York, Albright-Knox Art Gallery

www.albrightknox.org

Provenance

• 1921, Walther Halvorsen
• Galerie Durand-Ruel
• 1932, Cornelius J. Sullivan (transferred to his estate upon his death, 1932)
• 1932-1935, Estate of Cornelius J. Sullivan
• 1935, sold to Jacques Seligmann and Co.
• 1935, sold to the Albright Art Gallery

Bibliography

• Museum's website, August 16, 2013
• 2002 Czestochowski and Pingeot
  Joseph S. Czestochowski and Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures: Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, International Arts, 2002, p. 230-231