Spanish Dance

Provenance

Commissioned by Edgar Degas’s heirs from the Hébrard Foundry, Paris, May 1918; René DeGas Family, Paris, by 1921 [see Czestochowski and Pingeot, p. 15]; by descent to the DeGas-Musson Family, New Orleans, before 1950 [see source cited above, p. 209]; sold by Gaston DeGas-Musson and the Musson Family to the Elkin and Albris Silberman Galleries, New York, January 19, 1950 [see source cited above; see also agreement of sale, January 19, 1950, DeGas-Musson Family Papers, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, copy in curatorial file]; sold by Silberman Galleries to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1950.

Spanish Dance

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas

Modeled c. 1883, cast 1919–21

Accession Number

133719

Medium

Bronze

Dimensions

47 × 16.6 × 21.6 cm (18 1/2 × 6 1/2 × 8 1/2 in.)

Classification

statuette

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Wirt D. Walker Endowment