Fan Mount: Dancers

Edgar Degas

1879 · Watercolor and metallic paint on silk · European Paintings

In 1879, when Degas created this work, he was organizing a gallery at the fourth Impressionist exhibition devoted to his own painted fans alongside those of Félix and Marie Bracquemond, Jean-Louis Forain, Morisot, and Pissarro. Cassatt, who owned this fan, considered it "the most beautiful one that Degas painted." She sold it to Louisine Havemeyer in 1919.

Artist

Edgar Degas

Date

1879

Medium

Watercolor and metallic paint on silk

Department

European Paintings

Credit line

H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929