Dancer Looking at the Sole of Her Right Foot
Artist
Edgar Degas
(French, 1834-1917)
CultureFrench
Date1882-1895, cast between 1919 and 1921
MediumBronze
Dimensions18 1/2 in. (47 cm)
Overall, Support: 6 1/2 x 7 3/8 in. (16.5 x 18.7 cm)
Overall, Support: 6 1/2 x 7 3/8 in. (16.5 x 18.7 cm)
InscribedSigned left of foot "40/0" and foundry mark at right of foot.
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.2047
Collections
On View
Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 217
Label TextEdgar Degas French (1834-1917) Dancer Looking at the Sole of Her Right Foot, no date Bronze, 18 1/2 in. Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.2047ProvenanceSale, Philips, Neal and Son, London, July 7, 1959, lot 324, sold to “A. Wall” for £800Exhibition History"The Figure," Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, Va., March 24 - May 8 , 1988. "Movement and Meaning: Images of Dance in Modernist Art," Bayly Art Museum, Charlottesville, Va., September 20 - December 8, 1996. "Degas and the Art of Japan" Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania, September 29 - December 30, 2007 Published ReferencesJill DeVonjar and Richard Kendall, _Degas and the Art of Japan_, exh. cat., The Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania, 2007, 79 Fig. 79, 82 & 106. ISBN: 978-0-300-12633-4 Ricard Bru, _Erotic Japonisme: The Influence of Japanese Sexual Imagery on Western Art_ (Leiden: Koninklijke Brill, 2014) 75.
Edgar A. Caffey
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