Art Institute of Chicago

Spanish Dance

Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)LinkedCulture matchlcp-bf4856169bdb

Date: Modeled c. 1883, cast 1919–21
Medium: Bronze
Culture: France
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Institution: Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID: 133719

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Credit line: Wirt D. Walker Endowment
Provenance: Commissioned by Edgar Degas’s heirs from the Hébrard Foundry, Paris, May 1918; René DeGas Family, Paris, by 1921 [see Czestochowski and Pingeot, p. 15]; by descent to the DeGas-Musson Family, New Orleans, before 1950 [see source cited above, p. 209]; sold by Gaston DeGas-Musson and the Musson Family to the Elkin and Albris Silberman Galleries, New York, January 19, 1950 [see source cited above; see also agreement of sale, January 19, 1950, DeGas-Musson Family Papers, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, copy in curatorial file]; sold by Silberman Galleries to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1950.