Edgar Degas Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago Art Explorer - Images and Text Resources
Detailed information about the artist and his works
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK
A Roman Beggar Woman, 1857
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Edgar Degas at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
16 works online
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Fitzwilliam Museum PHAROS Website, Cambridge, UK
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
11 works by Degas
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
56 works online by Degas
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
Many works on paper online
Edgar Degas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Musée d'Orsay Collection Database, Paris
Many works by Edgar Degas online
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Sculpture collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Drawings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Pastel collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
3 works online when last checked
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
2 works online
National Gallery, London, UK
Edgar Degas at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
73 works by Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
The Dance Lesson
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
A Nanny in the Luxembourg Gardens, Paris, ca.1875
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Many works
Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Réunion des Musées Nationaux, France (in French)
About 11 works displayed over 2 pages of search results
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Orchestra Musicians (Musiciens à l'orchestre)
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Pathway in a Field
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Dancer Ready to Dance, with Right Foot Forward
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
The False Start
Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Art Collection of the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Colombia
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Grande Arabesque, troisième temps
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Woman at her Bath
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto - Provenance Research
Grande Arabesque, troisième temps, bronze statue
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto - Provenance Research
Woman at Her Bath
Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana
Expectant Mother (Femme enceinte)
Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, UK
Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando
Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin
Leaving the Bath, ca.1879-80
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
Portrait of Manet, etching, 1864-65
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Charleston, the country home of the Bloomsbury Group, East Sussex, England
Chi-Mei Museum, Taiwan (in Chinese)
Femme se lavant jambe gauche
Christchurch Art Gallery / Te Puna O Waiwhetu, New Zealand
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
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Dancer in Her Dressing Room
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Woman Viewed from Behind, ca.1879
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
The Dancing Lesson, ca.1880
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, 1880-81
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
The Entrance of the Masked Dancers, pastel, ca.1884
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Three Ballet Dancers, monotype, ca.1878-80
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts - Provenance Research Project
Before the Race, ca.1882
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Cabaret, 1876/77
Dance Class (Ècole de danse), ca.1873
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
8 works by or related to the artist
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Davistown Museum, Liberty, Maine
Mlle. Carpentier, ca.1860s
Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Tennessee
Dancer Adjusting Her Shoe, pastel
Dublin City Gallery | The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland
Beach Scene (Bains de Mer: Petite Fille peignée par sa Bonne)
Dublin City Gallery | The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland
A Young Woman with a White Headdress
Dublin City Gallery | The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland
Thoroughbred Horse Walking, bronze
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C.
The Song Rehearsal
Giulia Bellelli
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
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Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany (in German)
Fondation Bemberg Museum, Toulouse, France
Femme à la coiffeuse
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma
Danseuse à la barre
Frick Collection, New York City
The Rehearsal, 1878-79
Gemeentemuseum, The Hague
Study for Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, 1879-80
Glasgow Museums, Scotland
Dancers on a Bench
Glasgow Museums, Scotland
Grande Arabesque, Premier Temps
Hammer Museum, California
Woman at her Toilette (les bras), monotype, 1880-85
Hammer Museum, California
Dancer, Arm Too Far behind the Head, 1880-85
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington, Connecticut
Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, New York
Draught Horse, ca.1881
Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, New York
Dancer with Red Stockings, 1883-85
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington - Provenance Research Project
2 drawings online
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Little Dancer Aged Fourteen
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Dancer Stretching
After the Bath, Woman Drying Her Hair
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
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Le Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours, France (in French)
Le Calvaire, copie d'après Mantegna, ca.1861
Edgar Degas in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Saskatchewan
Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
Bather Drying Herself, or After the Bath, pastel on paper, ca.1895
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Dancer Holding Her Right Foot in Her Right Hand, bronze
Dancer, Seen from Behind
Dancers
Woman Washing Her Left Leg, bronze
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
La Causerie (Conversation at the Racetrack)
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France (in French)
Danseuses sur la scène
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France (in French)
Le Café-concert des Ambassadeurs
Musee Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland (in French)
Portrait (Victorien Sardou?), ca.1880
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish)
Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
Portrait of Henri Michel-Lévy
Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (in Portuguese)
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Petite Danseuse
Museum of Modern Art, New York City - Provenance Research Project
At the Milliner's (Chez la modiste), ca.1882
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
2 works online
National Museums Liverpool, UK
Woman ironing
New Art Gallery, Walsall, England
2 works online
New Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen
3 paintings online
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Le Repos, ca.1893
Oskar Reinhart Collection, Switzerland
Dancer in the Dressing Room, ca.1878/79
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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15 works by Edgar Degas online
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Mini-site for a 2003 exhibition: Degas and the Dance
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona
Portrait of a Lady
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City
Mlle Bécat at the Café des Ambassadeurs
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City
Three Studies of a Dancer
Portland Museum of Art, Maine
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Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
Blue Dancers, 1890s
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Three dancers at a dancing class, ca.1888-90
Reading Public Museum, Pennsylvania
The Laundress
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art
Dancer with a Bouquet (see top row)
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
Cheval au trot
San Diego Museum of Art, California
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Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago
Southampton City Art Gallery, England
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Germany ( in German)
Sängerin in einem Pariser Gartencafé, watercolor, 1880
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
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Studio Esseci, Italy (in Italian)
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Tate Gallery, London, UK
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
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The Albertina, Vienna
Two dancers, 1905
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)
Edgar Degas at the The British Museum, London, UK
The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas
The Ordrupgaard Collection, Charlottenlund, Denmark
Children on a Staircase (New Orleans, sketch), 1873
The Ordrupgaard Collection, Charlottenlund, Denmark
Three Dancers, pastel on paper, ca.1898
The Ordrupgaard Collection, Charlottenlund, Denmark
Woman Combing Her Hair, pastel on paper, ca.1895-1900
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
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Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
The Dancers (Click the "Works on Paper" category)
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
Au Louvre: La Peinture (Mary Cassatt), 1863
Valtion Taidemuseo (Finnish National Gallery), Helsinki, Finland
Valtion Taidemuseo (Finnish National Gallery), Helsinki, Finland
Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
The Ballet Scene from Meyerbeer's Opera 'Robert Le Diable', 1876
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Prancing Horse, ca.1865-81
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
At the Races: Before the Start, ca.1885-92
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German)
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Search results for "Edgar Degas"
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Danish Museums Online (in Danish)
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UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Miscellaneous Sites:
ArtDaily - Exhibition Photo Galleries
Degas at Harvard (4 works online)
Dickinson Agents and Dealers in Fine Art, London, UK -- Notable past sales
FBI Art Theft Program
Details of 5 drawings stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston
Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"
The BBC
2 works online
The Fine Arts Conservancy, Florida
Interesting before-and-after examples of artwork restorations
Woman on an Orange Chaise, pastel drawing
The Fine Arts Conservancy, Florida
Interesting before-and-after examples of artwork restorations
Spanish Dancer, bronze
The Modernist Journals Project
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The Running Horse
1869 Carriage at the Races
The Running Horse
Racehorses at Longchamp
The Running Horse
Le faux départ, 1869-72
Thomas Gibson Fine Art Ltd., London, UK -- Notable past sales
Chez La Modiste, pastel, ca.1883
Articles and Reference Sites:
Answers.com reference works 
The "Art Encyclopedia" entry is from the Concise Grove Dictionary of Art (2002). The "Photography Encyclopedia" entry is from the The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (2005).
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Edgar Degas
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Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
Jockeys at Epsom, ca.1860-62
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
"Picasso Looks at Degas" (2010)
Arcadian Galleries
Biography of the artist
Art + Auction Magazine
"Degas bronzes, all of which were cast posthumously, have always been controversial..."
International Herald Tribune (now part of the New York Times organization)
"A Magnificent New Perspective on Degas," article by Souren Melikian
Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide
Ocular Anxiety and the Pink Tea Cup: Edgar Degas's Woman with Bandage
Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide
Reading the Animal in Degas's Young Spartans
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
Slate Magazine
"Camera Obscura: Degas' funereal photography," article by Christopher Benfey
Slate Magazine
"Better Late Than Never: The second half of Edgar Degas' career turns out to have been as powerful as the first," article by Christopher Benfey
The Art Newspaper
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"The silence of the Degas scholars", 2010 article on the newly discovered original sculpture casts
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Hélène Rouart in Her Father's Study, 1886
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Princess Pauline de Metternich, ca.1865
The New York Observer
"Degas' Private Collection Makes for Perfect Met Show", article by Hilton Kramer
The New York Observer
"Loner, Misfit Degas: Lover of Bathers Was Never Impressionist", article by Hilton Kramer
Time Magazine
"Seeing Degas as Never Before", 1988 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"An Impressionist Abroad", 1999 article by Robert Hughes
Vanity Fair Magazine
"Degas and the Dancers", 2002 article by John Richardson
Wikiquote, compendium of quotations from the Wikimedia Foundation
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