Sur la Scène (On Stage I)
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas, French, 1834 - 1917
1876
Softground etching and drypoint on wove paper
Plate: 4 3/4 × 6 3/8 in. (12 × 16.2 cm)
Sheet: 6 1/4 × 9 5/8 in. (15.9 × 24.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through gifts from the Lathrop Fellows
2007.79
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in plate, lower right: Degas; reverse, inscribed, in graphite, center right: L.D.33. Sur la Scène [indistinct] / 3e [e in superscript] état - 3e [e in superscript] planche; reverse, stamped, in red, ink, upper right: ATELIER / ED. DEGAS [Degas atelier stamp]
Course History
ARTH 51, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Katie Hornstein, Fall 2012
ARTH 7, Paris in the Nineteenth Century, Kristin O'Rourke, Spring 2013
ARTH 51, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Katie Hornstein, Fall 2012
SART 31, SART 72, Painting II, Painting III, Jennifer Caine, Fall 2013
ARTH 7, Paris in the 19th Century, Kristin O'Rourke, Winter 2014
WRIT 5, Poor Taste, William Boyer, Winter 2014
ARTH 7.2, Paris in the Nineteenth Century, Kristin O'Rourke, Winter 2015
ENGL 62.03/WGSS 48.09, 19th Century British Women Writers, Carolyn Dever, Fall 2019
ARTH 7.02, Paris in the 19th Century, Kristin O'Rourke, Spring 2022
Art History 7.02, Paris in the 19th Century, Kristin O'Rourke, Spring 2023
Art History 7.02, Paris in the 19th Century, Kristin O'Rourke, Spring 2024
Art History 7.02, Paris in the 19th Century, Kristin O'Rourke, Spring 2024
Exhibition History
Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, July-September 1984, no. 31-3.
European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 30, 2008-March 8, 2009.
Publication History
Richard R. Bretell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Degas in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago and New York: 1984), p. 75, fig. 30/31/3.
T. Barton Thurber, European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2008, pp. 186-187, ill. p.186, no. 115.
Provenance
The estate of the artist [Vente de'estampes, no. 66]; Alice Adam, Ltd., Chicago, Illinois; Dr. and Mrs. Martin L. Gecht, Chicago, Illinois, by 1978; Pia Gallo Fine Old Master and Modern Prints, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 2007.
Catalogue Raisonne
Delteil (1906), Vol. 9: 33; Reed & Shapiro: 22; Adhémar, IFF (1953): 30
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