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Actresses in Their Dressing Rooms

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Actresses in Their Dressing Rooms

Edgar Degas

Date
1879/1880
Medium
etching and aquatint on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 22.5 x 31 cm (8 7/8 x 12 3/16 in.) plate: 16.1 × 21.2 cm (6 5/16 × 8 3/8 in.)
Classification
Print
Accession number
1949.5.473
Credit line
Rosenwald Collection
Time span
1876 to 1900
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • French
  • Seated figure
  • Impressionist
  • interior
  • architecture
  • Woman
  • Female nude
  • Mirror
Provenance

Harris Whittemore [1864-1927], Naugatuck, CT; (his sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 18 January 1949, lot 319); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia, PA); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA, 1949; gift to the NGA, 1949.

NGA object ID 36927. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.