Galerie Max Kaganovitch, Paris (by 1952)
Sale: Sotheby's, London, November 12, 1957, lot 78
Bruton Gallery, London
Rowland, Browse & Delbanco, London (acquired from the above)
Arnold L. Haskell, Bath & London
Private Collection, United Kingdom (by descent from the above and sold: Christie's, New York, May 8, 2003, lot 163)
James Goodman Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Edgar Degas, 1952, no. 140
New York, Galerie Chalette, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, 1955, no. 20
Bristol, City Art Gallery, The Arnold L. Haskell Collection of Sculptures and Related Drawings, 1963, no. 24
London, Bruton Gallery, French Sculpture, 1979, no. 36, illustrated in the catalogue

John Rewald, Degas, Sculptures, New York, 1955, no. LX, illustration of another cast pl. 61 and fig. 20
Franco Russoli & Fiorella Minervino, L'Opéra completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. S32, illustration of another cast p. 142
C.W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, fig. 125, illustration of another cast p. XIX
John Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture, Catalogue raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, no. LX, illustration of another cast pp. 158-159 
Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Paris, 1991, no, 32, illustration of another cast pp. 132-133
Sarah Campbell, "Degas, The Sculptures: A Catalogue Raisonné", Apollo, vol. VXLII, no. 402, August 1995, no. 67, illustration of another cast p. 43
Joseph Czestochowksi & Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronze, Memphis, 2002, no. 67, illustration in color of another cast p. 252ꦉ 

Work is in very good condition. Rich brown patina. Some minor surface dirt in crevices.
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