Edgar Degas

stamped Degas and with the foundry mark A.A. Hébrard Cire Perdue and numbered 1/I

height: 11½ in.

29.2 cm.

Louis J. Layat-Drompt, Lyon (Layat-Drauept) (acquired by October 1931)

Private Collection, Paris

Browse and Darby, London (acquired from the above in July 1998)

Private Collection, United States

Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York

Sotheby's, London, 19 June 2006, lot 13 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

John Rewald, Degas: Works in Sculpture, A Complete Catalogue, New York, 1944, no. XXXVIII, pp. 24 & 93, illustrations of the wax model and another cast

Leonard Von Matt, John Rewald, L'Oeuvre Sculpte de Degas, Zurich, 1957, no. XXXVIII, p. 152, illustration of the wax model

Franco Russoli and Fiorella Minervino, L'Opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. S2, p. 140, illustration of another cast

Charles W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, New Jersey, 1976, no. 46, n.p., illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., New York, Lefevre Gallery, The Complete Sculptures of Degas, 1976, no. 2, p. 21, illustration of another cast

Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, Verona, Palazzo Forti, Degas Scultore, 1986, no. 1, pp. 100 and 173, illustrations of another cast

John Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture, Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, no. XXXVIII, pp. 114 and 115, illustrations of the wax model and another cast

Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Paris, 1991, no. 2, pp. 76, 77 and 153, illustrations of the wax model and another cast Sara Campbell, "Degas: The Sculptures, A Catalogue Raisonné," in Apollo, London, 1995, p. 11, no. 1, illustrations of the wax model and another cast

Joseph Czetochowski and Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 1, pp. 122 and 123, illustrations of another cast

Exh. Cat., Fundacion Mapfre, Degas El Proceso de la Creacion, 2008-2009, no. 16, p. 101, illustration of another cast

Sara Campbell, Richard Kendall, Daphne Barbour and Shelley Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, vol. II, Pasadena, 2009, p. 503

After Degas’ death in 1917, his heirs authorized the A.A. Hébrard foundry to cast the artist's 73 original wax models into bronze multiples. According to their original agreement, 22 bronze casts would be made for each figure: one set for Degas’s heirs, marked HER; one for the foundry marked HER.D and 20 sets for sale, marked A-T. Each bronze is thus numbered alpha-numerically, indicating both the foundry’s inventory number and the series to which it belongs. However, Hébrard sometimes did not complete a full letter series or, he produced more examples that were originally contracted, resulting in many variations in the edition sizes for each figure. The present cast is marked I, and from this series, 22 casts have been located.