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Provenance

Michel Manzi, Paris; Boussod, Valadon et Cie, Paris [acquired from the above, May 1893]; Harris Whittemore, Naugatuck, CT [purchased from the above, 21 June 1893]; J. H. Whittemore Co., Naugatuck, CT [transferred November 1926]; Private Collection, USA; Sold at Christie's New York, 12 November 1985, Lot 4; Acquavella Galleries, New York; Nichido Gallery, Tokyo, 1988; Private Collection, Japan, 1988; Private Collection, New York, 1999; Property of the Estate of the Collector; Purchased by NMWA, 2016.

Exhibition History

1938

Exhibition of Paintings: For the Benefit of the Children's Center, New Haven, Connecticut, 2 April 1938 - 10 April 1938, no. 8

1941

Paintings from the Whittemore Collection, 0  1941 - 0  1941, no. 5.

1956

Pictures Collected by Yale Alumni Exhibition, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 8 May 1956 - 18 June 1956, no. 79, repr.

1957

Connecticut Collects: An Exhibition of Privately Owned Works of Art in Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, 4 October 1957 - 3 November 1957, no. 12.

1965

Art on Loan, Fulkerson Hall, Waterbury, 0 October 1965 - 0 October 1965, no. 11.

1965

Olympia's Progeny: French Impressionists and Post-impressionist Paintings (1865-1905), Wildenstein and Co., New York, 28 October 1965 - 27 November 1965, no. 31, repr.

1978

Edgar Degas, Acquavella Galleries, New York, 1 November 1978 - 3 December 1978, no. 22, col. repr.

1988

Edgar Degas, Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, 27 October 1988 - 15 November 1988, Mie Prefectural Art Museum, 26 Nov.–25 Dec.; Daimaru Museum, Osaka, 25 Jan.–13 Feb. 1989; Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, 18 Feb.–19 Mar.; Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, 25 Mar.–7 May, no. 52, repr.

2002

Degas and the Dance, Detroit Institute of Arts, 20 October 2002 - 12 January 2003, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 12 February–11 May 2003, no. 106, col. repr.

2017

Hokusai and Japonisme, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 21 October 2017 - 28 January 2018, cat. no. 53, col. repr.

2019

Degas at the Opera, Musée dʼOrsay, 24 September 2019 - 19 January 2020, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 20 July-12 October, no. 273, col. repr.

2022

Dialogues of the Muses: The Paris Opera House and the Arts, Artizon Museum, 5 November 2022 - 5 February 2023, cat. no. 3-24, col. repr.

Bibliography

1978

Reff, Theodore. Edgar Degas and the dance. Arts Magazine. vol. 53, no. 3, November 1978, p. 147, fig. 5, repr.

1984

Brame, Philippe; Reff, Theodore. Degas et son oeuvre: A Supplement. New York/ London, Garland Publishing, 1984, no. 91, repr.

1988

Degas (exh. cat.). Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 9 February - 16 May 1988; Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, 16 June - 28 August 1988; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 27 September 1988 - 8 January 1989. Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux, 1988, p. 476, fig. 268, repr.

1999

Hasegawa, Tokushichi. Paintings I Loved and Bought. Nichido Publishing, 1999, p. 28-29, repr. color.

2009

Smith, Ann Y. Hidden Plain Sight: The Whittemore Collection and the French Impressionists, Garnet Hill Publishing Company and the Mattatuck Historical Society, 2009, p. 94, repr. color.

2017

Hokusai and Japonisme (exh. cat.). Hakamata, Hiroyo; Ikeda, Yuko, eds. Tokyo, Yomiuri Shimbun; The National Museum of western Art, Tokyo, 2017, pp. 95, 383, cat. no. 53, col. repr.

2018

Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 51 (Apr. 2016-Mar. 2017), 2018, Murakami, Hiroya. New Acquisitions. pp. 10-12, List of New Acquisitions. p. 13, col. repr.

2019

Degas at the Opéra (exh. cat.). Loyrette, Henri; Jones, Kimberly A.; Jarbouai, Leïla; Kisiel , Marine. Paris, Musée d'Orsay, 2019, pp. [258], 311, cat. no. 273, col. repr.

2022

Dialogues of the Muses: The Paris Opera House and the Arts (exh. cat.). Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation; Miura, Atsushi, eds. [Tokyo], Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation, 2022, pp. 195, 362, cat. no. 3-24, col. repr.

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