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Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917)
1854-1864

 

 

 

1873-1878

1873 / 1874 / 1875 / 1876 / 1877 / 1878

 

1873    
     

A Woman Ironing, 1873

Oil on canvas , 54.3 x 39.4 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Two Dancers, 1873

Dark brown wash and white gouache on bright pink commercially coated wove paper, now faded to pale pink, 61.3 x 39.4 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Artist's Cousin, Probably Mrs. William Bell (Mathilde Musson, 1841–1878), 1873

Pastel on green wove paper, now darkened to brown, 47.3 x 38.4 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Le pédicure, 1873
Oil on canvas, 61 x 46 cm
Musée d'Orsay

Head of a Woman, 1873

Oil on canvas, 17.5 x 19.7 cm

National Gallery, London

The Laundress, 1873
Oil on canvas, 25.1 x 19.4 cm

Norton Simon Museum
Cotton Merchants in New Orleans, 1873

Oil on linen, 58.74 x 71.76 cm
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Children on a Staircase (New Orleans, sketch), 1873
Oil on canvas , 60 x 73,5 cm
The Ordrupgaard Collection, Charlottenlund

Dance Class (école de danse), 1873

Oil on canvas , 42 x 49 cm

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Three dancers in a practice room, 1873

Oil on canvas , 27 x 22 cm

Private collection H. de Ganay, Paris

The cotton office, New Orleans, 1873

Oil on canvas , 74 x 92 cm

Musée des Beaux-Arts, Pau
La classe de danse, 1873 - 1876
Oil on canvas, 85 x 75 cm
Musée d'Orsay
The Rehearsal, c. 1873-1878

Oil on canvas, 45.72 x 60.01 cm
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Ballet Dancer, c. 1873-1900

Oil on canvas laid down to aluminum panel, 41.3 x 32.9 cm
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
   
     
     
     
     
     
     
1874    
     
Dancer, Circa 1874

Oil on canvas, 40.5 x 32.7 cm
Hermitage Museum

The Rehearsal Onstage, 1874?

Pastel over brush-and-ink drawing on thin cream-colored wove paper, laid down on bristol board and mounted on canvas, 53.3 x 72.4 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage, probably 1874

Oil colors freely mixed with turpentine, with traces of watercolor and pastel over pen-and-ink drawing on cream-colored wove paper, laid down on bristol board and mounted on canvas, 54.3 x 73 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

The Dance Class, 1874

Oil on canvas, 83.5 x 77.2 cm

 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Répétition d'un ballet sur la sc?ne, 1874
Oil on canvas, 65 x 81 cm
Musée d'Orsay
The Ballet Master (Le maître de ballet), c. 1874
Monotype heightened and corrected with white chalk or wash, 56.5 x 70 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington

Head of a Woman, c. 1874

Oil on canvas, 32.1 x 26.7 cm

National Gallery, London

Dancer (Battement in Second Position), 1874

Charcoal heightened with white and pale yellow chalk on paper, 45.1 x 30.2 cm

Norton Simon Museum

Two dancers on a stage, c. 1874

Oil on canvas, 61.5 x 46 cm

Courtauld Institute Galleries, London

Portrait of Leopold Levert, 1874

Oil on canvas

Private collection

Rehearsal Studio, c. 1874

Egg tempera on canvas

Shelburne Museum

Yellow Dancers (In the Wings), 1874-1876

Oil on canvas, 73.5 x 59.5 cm

Art Institute of Chicago

Dancer Bending Forward, 1874-1879

Charcoal with stumping, heightened with white and yellow pastel with stumping, on blue laid paper ruled with charcoal
46.2 x 30.4 cm

Art Institute of Chicago
   
     
     
     
     
     
     
1875    
     
Place de la Concorde (Viscount Lepic and his Daughters Crossing the Place de la Concorde), 1875

Oil on canvas, 78.4 x 117.5 cm
Hermitage Museum

Woman on a Sofa, 1875

Oil colors freely mixed with turpentine, with touches of pastel, over graphite underdrawing, on pink paper, 48.6 x 42.5 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Madame Jeantaud au miroir, c. 1875
Oil on canvas, 70 x 84 cm
Musée d'Orsay
A Nanny in the Luxembourg Gardens, Paris
[La nourrice du jardin du Luxembourg] c.1875

Oil on canvas, 65.0 x 92.0 cm
National Gallery of Australia

Portrait of Elena Carafa, c.1875

Oil on canvas, 70.1 x 55 cm

National Gallery, London

Henri Rouart in front of his Factory, c.1875

Oil on canvas, 66 x 50 cm

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Stefanina Primicile Carafa, Marchioness of Cicerale and Duchess of Montejasi, 1875

Oil on canvas, 49 x 39.4 cm

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Ballettprobe, 1875

Pastel on paper, 55 x 68 cm

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri

Peasant Girls Bathing in the Sea at Dusk, c. 1875

Oil on canvas, 65 x 81 cm

Private collection
Dancers, 1875

Pastel on paper, 50 ? 63 cm

Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Henri Degas and His Niece Lucie Degas (The Artist's Uncle and Cousin), 1875-1876

Oil on canvas, 99.8 x 119.9 cm

Art Institute of Chicago
Seated Dancer Adiusting her Shoes, Circa 1875 - 1876

Charcoal and white on greyish-blue paper, 47.3 x 30.5 cm
Hermitage Museum
Dans un café, 1875 - 1876
Oil on canvas, 92 x 68.5 cm
Musée d'Orsay

Women Combing Their Hair, c. 1875 - 1876

Oil on paper mounted on canvas, 32.38 x 46.03 cm

The Phillips Collection

At the cafe, c. 1875-1877

Oil on canvas, 65.7 x 54.6 cm

Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge

Au Café-concert : La Chanson du chien, c. 1875-1877

Pastel, 55 x 45 cm

 

Private collection, H. Havemeyer jr., New york
   
     
     
     
     
     
     
1876    
     
Ballet, c.1876
Pastel on paper, 58.4 x 42 cm
Musée d'Orsay
Femme sortant du bain, c. 1876
Pastel over monotype, 16 x 21.5 cm
Musée d'Orsay
Femme nue accroupie de dos, c. 1876
Pastel over monotype, 18 x 14 cm
Musée d'Orsay

Duchesa di Montejasi with Her Daughters, Elena and Camilla, about 1876


Oil on canvas, 66 x 97.8 cm

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Woman with an Umbrella (Berthe Jeantaud) c. 1876

Oil on canvas, 61 x 50.2 cm

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Woman Ironing, begun c. 1876, completed c. 1887
Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 66 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington

The Ballet Scene from Meyerbeer's Opera Robert Le Diable, 1876

Oil on canvas, 76.6 x 81.3 cm

Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Dancers in pink, 1876

Oil on canvas, 59.05 x 74.29 cm

Hill-Stead Museum

Café-Concert (The Spectators), c. 1876-1877

Pastel over monotype on buff wove paper, laid down on tan card
20.1 x 41.5 cm

Art Institute of Chicago

On the Stage, 1876-1877

Pastel and essence over monotype on cream laid paper, laid down on board
59.2 x 42.8 cm

Art Institute of Chicago

Woman Drying Herself After the Bath, 1876-1877
Pastel over monotype on paper, 45.7 x 60.3 cm

Norton Simon Museum

Cabaret, 1876-1877

Pastel over monotype on paper and board, 23.5 x 43.18 cm

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

Le Café-concert des Ambassadeurs , 1876-1877

Pastel over monotype, 37 x 26 cm

Musee des Beaux-Arts, Lyons
After the Bath, 1876-1877

Pastel over monotype, 21 x 16 cm

Private collection

The Star, c. 1876-1878

Pastel over ink monotype on laid paper, 44.1 x 34.3 cm

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Portrait of Miss Cassatt, holding the cards, c. 1876-1878

Oil on canvas, 74 x 60 cm

Private collection

Two women washing,c. 1876-1878

Pastel , 46 x 61 cm

Private collection, H. J. Sachs, New York

Portrait of a woman, c. 1876-1880

Oil on canvas, 46.3 x 38.2 cm

National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
Le champ de courses. Jockeys amateurs pr?s d'une voiture, 1876 - 1887
Oil on canvas, 66 x 81 cm
Musée d'Orsay
Dancers Backstage, 1876 - 1883
Oil on canvas, 24.2 x 18.8 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
   
     
     
     
     
     
     
1877    
     

Ballet at the Paris Opera, 1877

Pastel over monotype on cream laid paper
35.2 x 70.6 cm

Art Institute of Chicago

Portrait of a Woman Mademoiselle Malot(?); Portrait de Femme, 1877

Oil on canvas, 86.36 x 76.84 x 7.30 cm

Detroit Institute of Arts
The Impresario, circa 1877
Oil on paper board, 38.1 x 25.4 cm
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Dancers Practicing at the Barre, 1877

Mixed media on canvas, 75.6 x 81.3 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Dancer Onstage, ca. 1877

Gouache over graphite underdrawing on thin wove commercially coated yellow paper, laid down on board, 17.1 x 21.3 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Femmes à la terrasse d'un café le soir, 1877
Pastel over monotype, 41 x 60 cm
Musée d'Orsay
Les choristes, 1877
Pastel over monotype, 27 x 32 cm
Musée d'Orsay (stolen)
Fin d'arabesque, 1877
Pastel on paper
Musée d'Orsay
Ballet Dancers, c. 1877
Pastel and gouache over monotype, 29.7 x 26.9 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Dancers at the Old Opera House, c. 1877
Pastel over monotype on laid paper, 21.8 x 17.1 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Mademoiselle Malo, c. 1877
Oil on canvas, 81.1 x 65.1 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington

Mademoiselle Malo, c. 1877

Pastel, 52 x 41 cm

Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham

At the Ambassadeurs c. 1877

Etching, aquatint, and drypoint on wove paper, 31.5 x 44.8 cm

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Woman Combing Her Hair Before a Mirror, c. 1877
Oil on canvas, 46.7 x 32.4 cm

Norton Simon Museum

Woman Getting Out of the Bath, c. 1877
Pastel over monotype on paper, 15.9 x 21.6 cm

Norton Simon Museum

Beach Scene, 1877

Oil on paper mounted on canvas, 47 x 82.6 cm

Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin
Mademoiselle Malo, c. 1877

Oil on paper laid down on card , 29.9 x 23.5 cm
Private collection
The Rehearsal, 1871
Oil on canvas
Glasgow Museums
Two Dancers Entering the Stage, c. 1877-1878

Pastel over monotype in black ink on white modern laid paper, discolored to tan, 38.1 x 35 cm
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts

Die Tànzerin beim Fotografen, c. 1877-1878

Oil on canvas, 65 x 50 cm

Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Singers on the Stage, 1877-1879

Pastel over monotype on ivory wove paper, laid down on board, 16.0 x 21.0 cm

Art Institute of Chicago

Café-Concert Singer, 1877-1879
Pastel over monotype on paper, 16.2 x 11.7 cm

Norton Simon Museum
Bailarina basculando (Bailarina verde), 1877-1879
Pastel on paper, 64 x 36 cm
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

Mademoiselle Bécat at the Ambassadeurs, 1877-1879

Pastel over lithograph, 16.2 x 12.2 cm

Private collection

Dancer Stretching at the Bar, c. 1877-1880

Pastel with estompe on cream laid paper, 31.8 x 24.0 cm

Art Institute of Chicago

Dancer with a bouquet, c. 1877-1880

Pastel and gouache over chalk and monotype on paper, 40.32 x 50.48 cm

Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art
   
     
     
     
     
     
     
1878    
     

Three Dancers Preparing for Class, after 1878

Pastel on buff-colored wove paper, 54.6 x 52.1 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Danseuse au bouquet, saluant sur la sc?ne, 1878
Pastel on paper, 72 x 77.5 cm
Musée d'Orsay

Seated Dancer Rubbing Her Leg, c. 1878
Black charcoal with white and dark brown pastel on light brown paper, 44.8 x 31.1 cm

Norton Simon Museum

The Star: Dancer on Point, c. 1878
Gouache and pastel on paper, 56.5 x 75.6 cm

Norton Simon Museum
Chanteuse de Café, c. 1878

Pastel on canvas, 52.9 x 41.1 cm
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts

Portrait of Henri Michel-Lévy, c. 1878

Oil on canvas , 40 x 28 cm

Museu Calouste Gulbenkian

Danseuses, c. 1878

Pastel over monotype on paper, 38 x 28 cm
Private collection

Dancer with a bouquet of flowers (The Star of the ballet), c. 1878

Pastel, 81 x 66 cm

Private collection
Dancer in the Dressing Room, c. 1878–1879
Pastel and gouache on paper
Oskar Reinhart Collection

Portraits at the Stock Exchange, c. 1878–1879

Oil on canvas, 100.5 x 81.5 cm

Musée d'Orsay

Portraits at the Stock Exchange, c. 1878–1879

Pastel on paper, pieced and laid down on canvas, 72.1 x 58.1 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Violinist, study for The Dance Lesson, c. 1878-1879

Pastel and charcoal on green paper; squared for transfer, 39.1 x 29.8 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Etude pour le buste d'une danseuse, c. 1878 - 1879
Pastel on paper, 61.8 x 47.5 cm
Musée d'Orsay
The Rehearsal, 1878-1879
Oil on canvas , 47.63 x 60.96 cm
Frick Collection, New York City
Three Ballet Dancers , c. 1878-1880
Monotype, 20 x 41.7 cm
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown

Paul Lafond and Alphonse Cherfils Examining a Painting, c. 1878-1880

Oil on wood panel, 27cm x 34cm

The Cleveland Museum of Art
Before the Start, c. 1878-1880
Oil on canvas, 39.5 x 89 cm
E.G. BZhrle Collection, Zurich

Two Dancers, c. 1878-1880

Pastel and charcoal, 46.4 x 32.4 cm

Private collection
Portrait de jeune femme, 1878-1880

Pastel on paper laid down on board , 37.8 x 28.2 cm
Private collection

 

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