Edgar Degas

Charles Haviland, Paris

Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired from the above on 22 September 1917)

Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York (acquired from the above on 6 December 1917)

Paul H. Nitze and Phyllis Pratt Nitze, New York (acquired from the above on 1 December 1934)

The Paul H. Nitze Family Trust (acquired by descent from the above)

Christie’s, New York, 4 May 2005, lot 40 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Paris, 10 rue des Pyramides, Cinquième Exposition Impressionniste, 1880, no. 38 (titled Étude de loge au théâtre)

New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Paintings and Pastels by Degas (1834-1917), 1918, no. 19

New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Pastels and Gouaches by Edgar Degas and Camille Pissarro, 1932, no. 4

New York, Union League Club, The Master Impressionists, 1932, no. 1

The Art Gallery of Toronto, Paintings by Renoir and Degas and an Exhibition of Original Punch Drawings, 1934, no. 23

New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Pastels and Gouaches by Degas, Pissarro, Renoir, Cassatt, 1935, no. 6

Philadelphia, The Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Degas: 1834-1917, 1936, no. 34, illustrated (titled The box at the Theatre)

Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, Degas, 1937, no. 102

New York, Jacques Seligmann Galleries, The Stage, 1939, no. 21, illustrated (titled The Box at the Theater (La Loge))

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Works by Edgar Degas: A Loan Exhibition, 1947, no. 34, pl. XXXV, illustrated (titled The Box at the Theatre (La Loge) and with incorrect cataloguing)

London, The Courtauld Gallery, Renoir at the Theatre: Looking at ‘La Loge’, 2008, no. 12, pp. 64-65, illustrated in colour (detail); p. 87, illustrated in colour (titled Étude de loge au théatre or La Loge and with incorrect cataloguing)

Houston, Museum of Fine Arts and Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, Degas: A New Vision, 2016-17, n.n., p. 141, illustrated in colour

Paris, Musée d’Orsay and Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Degas à l’Opéra, 2019-20, no. 205, p. 203, illustrated in colour (titled Étude de loge au théâtre)

Philippe Burty, "Exposition des œuvres des artistes indépendant," La Republique française, 10 April 1880, p. 2

Charles Flor, "Les Ateliers de Paris: Les Impressionistes," Le National, 16 April 1880, pp. 2-3

Armand Silvestre, "Le Monde des arts: Exposition de la rue des Pyraides (premier article)," La Vie moderne, 24 April 1880, p. 262

Charles Ephrussi, “Exposition des artistes indépendants,” Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. I, 1880, p. 487

Joris-Karl Huysmans, "L'Exposition des Indépendants en 1880,” L’Art moderne, Paris, 1902, p. 131

Camille Mauclair, Degas, London and Toronto, 1938, p. 158, illustrated

Paul-André Lemoisne, Degas et son œuvre, vol. II, Paris, 1946, no. 584, p. 331, illustrated

Franco Russoli and Fiorella Minervino, L'opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. 762, p. 121, illustrated (titled Palco di teatro)

Jacques Lassaigne and Fiorella Minervino, Tout l'œuvre peint de Degas, Paris, 1974, no. 762, p. 121, illustrated

Henri Loyrette, ed., Degas inédit: Actes du Colloque Degas, Paris, 1988, no. 14, p. 344, illustrated

Exh. Cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, Degas, 1988, p. 377, fig. 178, illustrated (titled The Box at the Opera)

Robert Gordon and Andrew Forge, Degas, London, 1988, p. 173, illustrated in colour (titled Étude de loge au théâtre)

Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, The New Painting: Impressionism 1874-1886, 1986, no. 38, p. 311

Exh. Cat., London, Hayward Gallery and Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Toulouse-Lautrec, 1991, p. 354, illustrated

Jean Sutherland Boggs and Anne Maheux, Degas Pastels, New York, 1992, no. 23, p. 84, illustrated in colour (titled The Box at the Opera)

Ruth Berson, The New Painting: Impressionism 1874-1886, vol. I, San Francisco, 1996, pp. 278, 291 and 306; vol. II, V-38, p. 163, illustrated (titled Etude de loge au théâtre) 

Exh. Cat., London, Tate Britain and Washington, D. C., The Phillips Collection, Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec, London and Paris 1870–1910, 2005, p. 55, fig. 15, illustrated in colour (titled The Box at the Opera)

Connaissance des Arts, Hors série: Degas à l'Opéra, 2019, p. 11, illustrated in colour