DEGAS, Edgar

Maker: Hébrard, A.A.

[12/HER.D] Danseuse au tambourin

[12/HER.D] Dancer with Tambourine

original wax 1880s, cast 1920-1964

bronze

statuette

Dimensions (HxWxD): 10 ⁷⁄₈ x 6 ³⁄₄ x 6 ⁷⁄₈; H. of figure : 10 ¹¹⁄₁₆ in.

on top of base in rear left corner: Degas [stamped replica of artist's signature]
stamped in same location: HER. 12/D / CIRE PERDUE AAHEBRARD

Acc. No.: 1985.64.63

Credit Line: Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Photo credit: Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington

© Artist : public domain

Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, The National Gallery of Art

www.nga.gov

Provenance

• (Paris, A.A. Hébrard)
• Degas heirs
• 1964, 24 November, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, sale, "Coll. M.X. ...", no. 41, purchased by Hector Brame, Paris for Paul Mellon [1907-1999], Upperville, Virginia
• 1985, gift to NGA

Bibliography

• Museum's website, October 29, 2012
• 1991 Pingeot
  Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Paris, 1991, no. 20
• 1994 NGA Catalogue
  Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue, Washington, National Gallery of Art, 1994, p. 67, repro.
• 1995 Campbell
  Sara Campbell, "Degas' Bronzes - Introduction and a Catalogue," Apollo, vol. 142, no. 402, August 1995, no. 12
• 2002 Czestochowski and Pingeot
  Joseph S. Czestochowski and Anne Pingeot, Degas--Sculptures. Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes. Memphis, 2002, p. 144-145
• 2010 Lindsay, Barbour, Sturman
  Suzanne Glover Lindsay, Daphne S. Barbour, and Shelley G. Sturman, Edgar Degas Sculpture. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue, Washington, D.C., 2010, no. 21, 162-164, color repro.

Exhibitions

• Museum's website, October 29, 2012
  
  1978 Richmond
  Degas, Virginia Museum, Richmond, 1978, no. 43
  
  2005 New Brunswick
  Breaking the Mold: Sculpture in Paris from Daumier to Rodin, The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, 2005-2006, unnumbered catalogue, fig. 139