Jockey

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

1866–68

Edgar Degas
French, 1834-1917

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
Title: Jockey
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Published 1866–1880
Medium: Graphite with stumping on tan wove paper
Dimensions: 32.7 × 24.7 cm (12 7/8 × 9 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Robert Allerton
Reference Number: 1922.5518
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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.

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.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Degas: At the Track, On the Stage”, July 1, 2015-February 26, 2016, no cat.

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.

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