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Imitator of Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas
French, 1834–1917
Dancer with a Bouquet
Before 1923
Image Caption
Imitator of Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Dancer with a Bouquet, Before 1923, pastel on prepared wove wood-pulp paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.549
Medium
pastel on prepared wove wood-pulp paper
Dimensions
20 3/16 x 25 15/16 in. (51.2 x 65.9 cm)
Frame: 26 7/8 x 32 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. (68.3 x 83.5 x 6.4 cm)
Object Number
1955.549
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
Off View
Select Bibliography
New York: Durand-Ruel.. The Four Great Impressionists: Cézanne, Degas, Renoir, Manet, March 27-April 13, 1940. Cat. by Alfred Frankfurter. Lemoisne, Paul-André. Degas et son oeuvre. Les Artistes et leurs oeuvres, études et documents. Paris: P. Brame et C. M. de Hauke, 1946. Browse, Lillian. Degas Dancers. New York: Faber & Faber, [1949]. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Five: French Paintings of the 19th Century. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1956. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Ten: Degas. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1959. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Edgar Degas (1834-1917). Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. Minervino, Fiorella, and Franco Russoli. L'Opera completa di Degas. Milan: Rizzoli, 1970. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984. Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.
Provenance
Sandevert, probably France;¹ [Knoedler, New York, sold to Clark, 28 Dec. 1923, as by Degas]; Robert Sterling Clark (1923–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.
1. The invoice from Knoedler’s sale of the picture to Clark is annotated “From the collection of Monsieur Sandevert, commissaire priseur de province.” See the Clark’s curatorial file.