The Ballet Master

Provenance

Estate of the artist [stamps (Lugt 658) lower left in red and (Lugt 657) lower right in red]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, July 2-4, 1919, lot 206a. Given by Robert Sonnenschein, II, New Freedom, Wis., to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1951.

The Ballet Master

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas

c. 1872

Accession Number

75028

Medium

Graphite and black chalk with stumping, on buff wove paper, squared in charcoal

Dimensions

41 × 29.8 cm (16 3/16 × 11 3/4 in.)

Classification

graphite

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Robert Sonnenschein, II