Edgar Degas

Lithograph printed in soft black, 1878-80, the only state of this rare print, on thin wove paper, framed

With wide (full) margins, in good condition apart from pale light-stain, a small rust fleck in the margin at lower right, the extreme sheet corners with occasional short creases, minor soft creasing in the margins, faint remains of prior hinges at left and right sheet edges verso.
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Reed and Shapiro record only three other impressions of this subject, located at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Berlin Museum.

Provenance
Ex coll. Atelier Degas (Lugt 657) recto
Potter Palmer, Chicago
And thence by descent to the present owner