About This Artwork
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
French, 1834-1917
Studies of a Horse1868/75
Graphite with stumping on tan wove paper
305 x 246 mm
Gift of Robert Allerton, 1922.5519
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 19-September 23, 1984, pp. 53-54, cat. 21 (ill.), cat. by Richard R. Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh.
São Paulo, Brazil, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, "Degas: The universe of the Artist," May 16-August 20, 2006.
Publication History
J.B. Manson, The Life and Work of Edgar Degas (London, 1927).
Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), p. 39, no. 2E11.
Ownership History
Estate of the artist [stamp, Lugt 658, lower right in red]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, July 2-4, 1919, Fourth Degas estate sale, lot 223b. Alice Roullier, Chicago, for Robert Allerton (1873-1964), Chicago; given to the Art Institute, 1922.