The Violinist, Study for “The Rehearsal”

c. 1879

Medium	charcoal with white chalk on blue-gray laid paper
Dimensions	17 1/8 x 11 15/16 in. (43.5 x 30.3 cm)
Object Number	1955.1395
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, The Violinist, Study for “The Rehearsal”, c. 1879, charcoal with white chalk on blue-gray laid paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1395

Select Bibliography

Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Ten: Degas. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1959. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty: A Selection of Nineteenth Century French Drawings. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1965. Wildenstein & Company. An Exhibition of Treasures from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts: Paintings, drawings & rare silver, for the benefit of the Committee to Rescue Italian Art, inc. (CRIA). Exhibition catalogue. New York: Wildenstein & Company, 1967. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Edgar Degas (1834-1917). Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. Frick Collection, New York.. Harry Dobson Grier Miller. Nov. 14-26, 1972.. 1972.. Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland. Degas. Aug. 13-Sept. 30, 1979. Edinburgh International Festival. Cat. by Ronald Pickvance. Fernandez, Rafael, and Alexandra R. Murphy. Degas in the Clark Collection. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1987. Brooke, David S. Master Drawings: Robert Sterling Clark as a Collector. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1995. Browse, Lillian. Degas Dancers. New York: Faber & Faber, [1949]. Peter A. Wick.. "Degas' Violinist.". Boston Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin, 57.. (1959).:pp. 93, 97-98.. R. F. C.. "Le opere di Degas alla collezione Clark.". Emporium, 132: 787.. (July 1960).. Brooke, David S., Rafael Fernandez, and Beth Carver Wees. Three Cheers for the Twenty-Fifth. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1980.

Provenance

The artist (d. 1917, third studio sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 7–9 Apr. 1919 [L. 657 and L. 658], no. 161.2, ill., as Violiniste assis); Albert Pra (his sale, Galerie Charpentier, 17 June 1938, no. 10, as Mélomane); [Durand-Ruel, Paris, sold to Clark, 1938, as Le mélomane]; Robert Sterling Clark (1938–1955); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.