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Female Dancer with a Fan

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Degas is best known for his depictions of theatre scenes. He recorded the swift movements and colourful costumes in numerous chalk drawings and pastels. Girls in the ballet studio and in the wings were among his favourite subjects. Around 1880 he began to model in clay. As he said himself ‘modelling is a way of thinking,
just like sketching’.

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Title Female Dancer with a Fan
Material and technique Black chalk, heightened with white on grey paper
Object type
Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Location This object is in storage
Dimensions Height 480 mm
Width 315 mm
Artists Draughtsman: Edgar Degas
Accession number F II 222 (PK)
Credits Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940
Department Drawings & Prints
Acquisition date 1940
Creation date in circa 1876-1878
Collector Collector / Franz Koenigs
Internal exhibitions De Collectie Twee - wissel II, Prenten & Tekeningen (2009)
Selectie Impressionisten van Manet tot Cézanne (2017)
External exhibitions Boijmans bij de Buren - Meesterlijk! (2019)
Material
Object
Technique
Highlight > Painting technique > Technique > Material and technique
Geographical origin France > Western Europe > Europe

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Edgar Degas

Parijs 1834 - Parijs 1917

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas was admitted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Paris in 1855. He took a number of study trips to Italy and initially painted mainly...

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