About This Artwork

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
French, 1834-1917

Gentleman Rider, 1866/70

Brush and black gouache, with touches of white and brown oil paint, over graphite, on pink wove paper, laid down on cream board
440 x 280 mm (sheet)
Not signed
Gift of Mrs. Josephine P. Albright, 1967.240

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, "Edgar Degas," September 23, 1976-January 15, 1977, cat. 68; Musée de la Ville de Kyoto, and the Cultural Center of Fukuoka.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 19-September 23, 1984, pp. 51-52, cat. 20 (ill.), cat. by Richard R. Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh.

Washington D.C., The National Gallery of Art,
"Degas at the Races," April 12-July 12, 1998, cat. 35.

Publication History

Paul A. Lemoisne, Degas et son Oeuvre, II (Paris, 1946), no. 119 (ill).

Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), p. 38, no. 2E7.

Richard Brettell, French Salon Artists 1800-1900 (Chicago, 1987), pp. 64, 67, and 118 (ill.).

Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas (Chicago, 1996), pp. 22, 79 (ill.), and 108, pl. 8.

Ownership History

Estate of the artist [Lugt 658]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, April 7-9, 1919, lot 165b. Given by Mrs. Josephine Patterson Albright, Woodstock, Ver., to the Art Institute, 1967.