Edgar Degas

Georges Viau, Paris (acquired by 1919 and until at least 1924)

Galerie Jacques Callot, Paris

C. M. de Hauke & Co, Inc., New York and Jacques Seligmann, Paris and New York (acquired from the above on 27 May 1929)

Jacques Seligmann, New York and Paris (transferred from the above in June 1931)

Ambroise Vollard, Paris (acquired from the above on 10 October 1933 and until 1939)

Estate of Ambroise Vollard

De Galea Collection, Paris (acquired by inheritance from the above)

Etienne Bignou, Paris

C. M. de Hauke & Co, Inc., New York

Joan Whitney Payson, New York (acquired from the above)

Private Collection, New York (acquired by descent from the above)

Sotheby’s, New York, 8 May 2007, lot 19 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2010

Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Exposition Degas, 1924, no. 213 (catalogued as painted over lithograph)

New York, De Hauke & Co. Inc., Exhibition of Water Colors and Drawings by Nineteenth Century and Contemporary French Artists, 1929, no. 8 (titled Mademoiselle Bécat sur la scène du Concert des Ambassadeurs, dated 1875-78 and catalogued as pastel over lithograph)

New York, Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc, Exhibition of Drawing by Degas, 1930, no. 42 (titled Mme Becat Sur la Scene Du Cafe Des Ambassadeurs and catalogued as pastel over lithograph)

Boston, The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Degas, 1931, no. 24 (dated circa 1875)

Kyoto, Municipal Museum and Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art, From Goya to Wyeth: The Joan Whitney Payson Collection, 1980, no. 20, illustrated in colour

Paul Lafond, Degas, vol. 2, Paris, 1919, p. 39, illustrated in colour (titled Le Café-Concert)

Paul Jamot, Degas, Paris, 1924, pl. 48, illustrated (titled Mlle Bécat, chanteuse de café-concert, dated 1876-78 and catalogued as pastel)

Paul-André Lemoisne, Degas et son œuvre, vol. II, Paris, 1946-49, no. 458, p. 251, illustrated (catalogued as pastel over lithograph)

Eugenia Parry Janis, “The Role of the Monotype in the Working Method of Degas,” The Burlington Magazine, vol. 109, part 1, January 1967, fig. 52, illustrated; part II, February 1967, p. 76 (text) (catalogued as pastel over monotype)

Exh. Cat., Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Degas Monotypes, 1968, no. 34, illustrated (catalogued as pastel over monotype)

Franco Russoli and Fiorella Minervino, Opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. 452, p. 107, illustrated (titled La Bécat al Caffé-Concerto “Les Ambassadeurs” and with incorrect dimensions)

Jean Adhémar and Françoise Cachin, Degas: The Complete Etchings, Lithographs and Monotypes, Paris, 1972, p. LI (text)

Exh. Cat., Boston, Museum of Fine Arts; Philadelphia Museum of Art and London, Hayward Gallery, Edgar Degas: The Painter as Printmaker, 1984-85, p. 107, fig. 2, illustrated

Robert Gordon and Andrew Forge, Degas, New York, 1988, p. 152, illustrated in colour (dated circa 1877-78)

Exh. Cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Degas: A Strange New Beauty, 2016, no. 44, illustrated in colour (catalogued as pastel over lithograph)