About This Artwork
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
French, 1834-1917
Jockey1866-68
Graphite with stumping on tan wove paper, laid down on gray wove paper
327 x 247 mm
Gift of Robert Allerton, 1922.5518
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
St Louis, Mo., St. Louis Art Museum, "Drawings by Degas," 1966-67, pp. 127-128, cat. 80, cat. by Jean Sutherland Boggs.
Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland, "Degas," August 13-September 30, 1979, p. 12, cat. 7, cat. by Ronald Pickvance.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 19-September 23, 1984, p. 50, cat. 18 (ill.), cat. by Richard R. Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, "Degas and the Races," April 12-July 12, 1998, p. 115, cat. 64 (ill.), cat by Jean Sutherland Boggs, et. al.
Publication History
Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 16:1 (January-February 1922), pp. 11-12 (ill.).
J.B. Manson, The Life and Work of Edgar Degas (London, 1927).
Jean Sutherland Boggs, Drawings by Degas (St. Louis, 1966), pp. 126, no. 80 (ill.).
Eugenia Parry Janis, "Review of Degas Drawings...," Burlington Magazine 109 (July 1967), pl. 43.
Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), p. 40, no. 2F1.
Ownership History
Estate of the artist [stamp, Lugt 658, lower left in red]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, July 2-4, 1919, Fourth Degas estate sale, lot 215b. Durand-Ruel, Paris. Alice Roullier, Chicago, for Robert Allerton (1873-1964), Chicago; given to the Art Institute, 1922.

