About This Artwork

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
French, 1834-1917

Gentleman Rider, c. 1866/70

Graphite, with traces of brush and white gouache, on pink wove paper, laid down on cream board
435 x 270 mm (sheet)
Not signed.
The Charles Deering Collection, 1945.16

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Rhode Island School of Design Museum, "French Paintings and Drawings of the 19th and 20th Centuries," April 8-17, 1931.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Old and New," 1946, p. 12, cat. 13, pl. XX, cat. by Carl Schniewind.

Washington, D.C., Phillips Memorial Gallery, "Loan Exhibition of Drawings and Pastels by Edgar Degas (1834-1917)," March 30-April 30, 1947, cat. 23.

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

Dayton, Ohio, The Dayton Art Institute, "Edgar Degas: Exploring Dimensions," August 12-October 9, 1994.

Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, "Degas at the Races," April 12-July 12, 1998, cat. 36.

Publication History

Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas at the Races (Washington, 1998), pp. 77, cat. 36 (ill.).

Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), p. 38, no. 2E8.

Phillips Memorial Gallery, Loan Exhibition of Drawings & Pastels by Edgar Degas 1834-1917 (Washington, 1947), no. 23.

Ownership History

Estate of the artist [Lugt 658]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, April 7-9, 1919, lot 165. Dr. Georges Viau (1855-1939), Paris [according to invoice]. Jacques Seligmann and Company, New York, by April 1931 [as per letter from The Rhode Island School of Design Museum in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1945.