Gentleman Rider

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

1866/70

Edgar Degas
French, 1834-1917

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
Title: Gentleman Rider
Origin: France
Date: 1866–1870
Medium: Graphite, with traces of brush and white gouache, on pink wove paper, laid down on cream board
Inscriptions: Not signed.
Dimensions: 435 × 270 mm
Credit Line: The Charles Deering Collection
Reference Number: 1945.16
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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.

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.

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.

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