Horse Turned Three-Quarters

Prints and Drawings

c. 1880

Edgar Degas
French, 1834-1917

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
Title: Horse Turned Three-Quarters
Place: France (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1880–1884
Medium: Black crayon on buff tracing paper, formerly laid down
Dimensions: 32.2 × 22.1 cm (12 11/16 × 8 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of J. K. Thannhauser
Reference Number: 1945.30
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Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), p. 39, cat. 2E10.

The Art Institute of Chicago, “Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago,” July 19-September 23, 1984, pp. 127-128, cat. 62 (ill.), cat. by Richard R. Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh.

Estate of the artist [stamp, Lugt 658, recto, lower left, in red]. René de Gas, (1845-1926) Paris [letter from Justin Thannhauser dated March 22, 1945 in curatorial file]. Gustave Pellet (died 1919) Paris [Thannhauser letter]; by descent to his son-in-law, Maurice Exsteens, Paris [Thannhauser letter]. Given by Justin K. Thannhauser, New York, to the Art Institute, 1945.

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