Edgar Degas

Estate of the artist 

Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 3ème Vente Degas, 7-9 April 1919, lot 376 (consigned by the above)

Ambroise Vollard, Paris (acquired at the above sale and until at least 1922)

Private Collection, Copenhagen (acquired in the 1950s) 

Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner 

Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, Catalogue des tableaux, pastels et dessins par Edgar Degas et provenant de son atelier, 3eme vente, 7-9 April 1919, lot 376

Omaha, Joslyn Museum of Art; Williamstown, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute and The Baltimore Museum of Art, Degas and the Little Dancer, 1998-99, no. 49, illustrated in color (dated circa 1885 and with incomplete medium)

London, The Royal Academy of Arts, Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement, 2011, no. 44, p. 119, illustrated in color (dated circa 1885 and with incomplete medium)