Fan Mount: Ballet Girls. Artist: Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834-1917 Paris). Dimensions: 7 1/2 x 22 3/4 in. (19.1 x 57.8 cm). Date: 1879.
In 1879, when Degas created this work, he was organizing a gallery at the Salon des Indépendants devoted to the painted fans of Félix and Marie Bracquemond, Jean-Louis Forain, Morisot, Pissarro, and himself. Cassatt, who owned this fan, considered it "the most beautiful one that Degas painted." She sold it to Louisine Havemeyer in 1919.