Edgar Degas
Danseuse, position de quatrième devant sur la jambe gauche, première étude
stamped Degas and with the foundry mark A.A Hébrard Cire Perdue, and numbered 6/J
bronze
height 16¼ in., 41.3 cm.
Conceived in wax circa 1885-1890 and cast in bronze by the A.A. Hébrard Foundry, Paris from 1919, in an edition of 20 numbered A to T plus 2 casts inscribed HER and HER.D.
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Details
stamped Degas and with the foundry mark A.A Hébrard Cire Perdue, and numbered 6/J
height 16¼ in., 41.3 cm.
Provenance
(possibly) Lefevre Gallery, London (acquired by 1950)
O'Hana Gallery, London (acquired by 1970)
Private Collection, United Kingdom
(with) Jensen Fine Arts, Brookline, Massachusetts
Acquired from the above in 2002 by the present owner
Exhibition
(possibly) London, Lefevre Gallery, Degas, 1950, no. 32, n.p.
London, O'Hana Gallery, French Paintings and Sculpture of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Summer Exhibition, 1970, no. 21, p. 48
Literature
John Rewald, Degas, Works in Sculpture, A Complete Catalogue, New York, 1944, no. LV, p. 26 and p. 120, illustration of another cast
John Rewald and Leonard von Matt, L'oeuvre sculpté de Degas, Zürich, 1957, no. LV, pp. 41-42, illustration of another cast and p. 156
Franco Russoli and Fiorella Minervino, L'opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. S 9, p. 140 and p. 141, wax model illustrated
Charles W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, p. 106
John Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture, Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, no. LV, pp. 148-49, illustration of another cast
Anne Pingeot, Degas, Sculptures, Paris, 1991, no. 9, pp. 54-55, illustration of another cast, p. 156, illustration of another cast and p. 157
Sara Campbell, "Degas, The Sculptures, A Catalogue Raisonné," Apollo, vol. CXLII, no. 402, August 1995, no. 6, fig. 6, p. 14, illustration of another cast
Joseph S. Czestochowski and Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 6, pp. 132-33, illustration of another cast in color
Sara Campbell, Richard Kendall and Daphne Barbour, et al., Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, 2009, vol. II, no. 63, p. 341, illustration of another cast in color (in two details), p. 342, illustration of another cast in color, p. 343, illustration of another cast in color (in two details) and p. 507
Catalogue Note
After Degas' death in 1917, his heirs authorised the A.A. Hébrard foundry to cast the artist's 73 original wax models into bronze multiples. According to their original agreement, 22 bronze casts would be made for each figure: one set for Degas's heirs, marked HER; one for the foundry marked HER.D and 20 sets for sale, marked A-T. Each bronze is thus numbered alpha-numerically, indicating both the foundry's inventory number and the series to which it belongs. However, Hébrard sometimes did not complete a full letter series or, he produced more examples that were originally contracted, resulting in many variations in the edition sizes for each figure. The present cast is marked 6/J, and from this series, 16 casts have been located.