EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)Danseuse à la barreEDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)Danseuse à la barresigned ‘Degas’ (upper left)gouache, pastel and pencil on paper laid down on artist's mountSheet size: 7 x 8 7/8 in. (17.8 x 22.6 cm.)Mount size: 11 1/8 x 12 5/8 in. (28.4 x 32.1 cm.)Executed in 1877Details EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)Danseuse à la barresigned ‘Degas’ (upper left)gouache, pastel and pencil on paper laid down on artists mountSheet size: 7 x 8 7/8 in. (17.8 x 22.6 cm.)Mount size: 11 1/8 x 12 5/8 in. (28.4 x 32.1 cm.)Executed in 1877 Provenance John Howard Whittemore, Connecticut.M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York (on consignment from the above, November 1935).Ernest F. Kanzler, Detroit (acquired from the above, January 1936).Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York (acquired from the above, 21 April 1936).Grace Rainey Rogers, New York (acquired from the above, 12 May 1936).Carroll Carstairs Gallery, New York (by October 1936).Helen and Murray Snell Danforth, Providence, Rhode Island (acquired from the above, 1 November 1936, then by descent to the late owner). Literature G. Rivière, Lexposition des impressionnistes in LImpressionniste, no. 2, 14 April 1877, p. 5.L. Hautecœur, La conception de la nature chez les peintres modernes in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, vol. 78, no. 16, July-August 1936, p. 181 (illustrated, fig. 3).P.A. Lemoisne, Degas et son œuvre, Paris, 1947, vol. III, p. 232, no. 421 (illustrated, p. 233).J. Lassaigne and F. Minervino, Tout l’œuvre peint de Degas, Paris, 1974, p. 110, no. 498 (illustrated; dated 1876-1877). Exhibited (possibly) Paris, 6 rue le Peletier, 3e Exposition de Peinture, April 1877. Conditions of saleProperty from the Estate of Sophie F. Danforth