Edgar Degas

Jacques Dubourg, Paris (acquired in 1960)

M. Knoedler & Co. Ltd., New York (acquired from the above in 1966)

Allan Bluestein, Washington, D.C. (acquired from the above)

Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 3 April 1968, lot 2 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)

Sotheby's, London, 1 December 1971, lot 53

A. C. Johnson Collection

O'Hana Gallery, London (acquired by 1975)

Jacques O'Hana, New York (acquired from the above)

Sylvia Shine, London

Sotheby's, London, 2 July 1980, lot 182 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)

Bonhams, London, 23 June 2016, lot 29 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, New York (acquired at the above sale)

Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner

John Rewald, Degas: Works in Sculpture, A Complete Catalogue, New York, 1944, no. LIII, p. 26, pl. 117, illustration of another cast

Pierre Borel, Les Sculptures inédites de Degas, Geneva, 1949, illustration of another cast

John Rewald, Degas Sculpture, The Complete Works, Zurich, 1957, no. LIII, pp. 144-45, pl. 45, illustration of another cast

John Rewald, Degas' Complete Sculpture: Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, no. LIII, pp. 144-45, illustrations of the original wax and other casts

Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Paris, 1991, no. 31, pp. 167-68, illustrations of the original wax and other casts; pp. 50-51

Sara Campbell, “Degas, the Sculptures, a Catalogue Raisonné,” Apollo, 1995, no. 34, p. 27, illustration of another cast

Joseph S. Czestochowski and Anne Pingeot, eds., Degas Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 34, pp. 188-89, illustration of another cast

Sara Campbell, Richard Kendall, Daphne Barbour and Shelley Sturman, eds., Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, vol. II, Pasadena, 2009, no. 73, pp. 378-81, illustration of another cast