About This Artwork

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
French, 1834-1917

Horse and Rider, 1887/90

Charcoal on buff tracing paper, laid down
254 x 303 mm (sheet)
Not signed
Bequest of Joseph Winterbotham, 1954.329

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Chicago, The Arts Club, "Exhibition of the Joseph Winterbotham Collection," December 9-31, 1936, cat. 50.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 19-September 23, 1984, p. 126, cat. 61 (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

Publication History

Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), p. 44, no. 2G4.

Karen Wilkin, Degas: The Many Dimensions of a Master French Impressionist (Dayton, 1994), pp. 82, no. 43 (ill.).

Ownership History

Estate of the artist [Lugt 658]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, April 7-9, 1919, lot 106. Joseph Winterbotham, Jr. (1878-1954), Chicago and Burlington, Vermont, by 1936 [Chicago 1936]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1954.