Violinist, study for "The dance lesson"

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917)


Item type:
drawing
Date of creation:
ca. 1878–1879
Height:
39.1 cm  (15 3/8 in.)
Width:
29.8 cm  (11 3/4 in.)
Technique / Medium:
Pastel and charcoal on green wove paper; squared for transfer in charcoal; letterpress printing on verso
Place of creation:
Paris (France)
School:
Impressionism

Description

Drawing depicting a violin player. The drawing is a study for the famous pastel drawing "The Dance Lesson" (ca. 1879) by Degas, also owned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art (see RIdIM item 4981).

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Violin [3573]

RIdIM images


The black/white image is part of the donation by the Performing Arts Index (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) to Association RIdIM.

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Stein, Susan Alyson. The private collection of Edgar Degas (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997) ISBN 9780300203615.

Keller, Horst. Edgar Degas (Munich: Bruckmann, 1988) ISBN 9783765421792.

Browse, Lillian. Degas dancers (New York: Studio Publications, 1949).

Lipton, Eunice. Looking into Degas:
Uneasy images of women and modern life (Berkeley, Los Angeles etc.: University of California Press, 1986) ISBN 9780520056046.

DeVonyar, Jill and Richard Kendall.
Degas and the dance (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2002) ISBN 9781885444264.

Kendall, Richard and Jill DeVonyar. Degas and the ballet: Picturing movement (London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2011) ISBN 9781905711680.

Wick, Peter A. "Degas' violinist", Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts 57/310 (1959) 87-101. JSTOR subscription access: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4171313.

Tenneriello, Susan "Behind the scenes: Art work and the laboring body in the dance Images of degas". Dance Chronicle 38/1 (2015) 27-54. RILM 2015-7621.

Sparti, Barbara; Van Zile, Judy et al. (eds). Imaging dance: Visual representations of dancers and dancing (Hildesheim: Olms, 2011) ISBN 9783487145495.

Fischer, Miriam. Denken in Körpern: Grundlegung einer Philosophie des Tanzes (Freiburg i.Br.: Verlag Karl Alber, 2010) ISBN 9783495484029.

RIdIM record id

4976