The Ballet

Former TitleLes Tointes

Artist Auguste Brouet (French, 1872 - 1941)

Date1920

MediumEtching

DimensionsImage: 7 1/4 × 9 7/16 inches (18.42 × 23.97 cm)
Sheet: 12 3/4 × 18 1/4 inches (32.39 × 46.36 cm)

Credit LineGift of Robert B. Fizzell

Object number56-126/65

Edition/State/Proof26/100

On View

Not on view

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Exhibition History

Town and Country, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 23, 2011-January 22, 2012; May 5-November 10, 2019, no cat.

Gallery Label

Auguste Brouet’s delicate image of ballerinas on stage illustrates this cultivated pastime of Paris’ elite. In The Ballet, Brouet incorporates the unusual vantage point and awkward poses of dancers frozen in time made famous by the Impressionist painter Edgar Degas.

Provenance

Robert B. Fizzell (1889-1978), Kansas City, MO, by December 14, 1956;

Given by Robert B. Fizzell to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1956.

Published References

Gustave Geffroy, Auguste Brouet: Catalogue de son oeuvre grave (Paris : Gaston Boutitie, 1923), no. 231, (repro.), as Le Ballet, The Ballet.

George L. McKenna, The Collections of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: Prints 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in association with The University of Washington Press, 1996), 291, (repro.), as The Ballet.

Barthel, Auguste Brouet, peintre-graveur (1872-1941), online catalogue raisonné, no. 441, as Le Ballet, The Ballet, accessed July 8, 2019, http://www.auguste-brouet.org/Catalogue/Pages/441.htm

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