HILAIRE-GERMAIN-EDGAR DEGAS
Paris 1834–1917 Paris
Chevaux et jockeys dans un paysage
Stamped with the Degas estate sale mark, degas, lower right (Lugt 658); and stamped with the Degas atelier mark, ATELIER – ED. DEGAS, on the reverse of the panel (Lugt 657); inscribed on the reverse of the panel in blue crayon with the Degas atelier inventory photograph number, Ph 1694 (photograph taken by Durand-Ruel)
Oil, essence, charcoal, and brush with India ink on panel
12 ⅝ x 16 ⅛ inches
32 x 41 cm
Provenance
Estate of the artist (Atelier Degas, Vente II: Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 11-13 December 1918, lot 8, illustrated), where purchased by
Galerie Nunès et Fiquet, Paris, as agents for
M. et Mme. Adolphe Friedmann, Paris, by descent to
M. et Mme. Georges Friedmann, Paris,
Thence by descent
Exhibitions
Paris, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Degas, 1955, cat. no. 130 (dated 1890)
Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Edgar Degas, 9 June – 1 October 1960, cat. no. 46
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Degas at the Races, 12 April – 12 July 1998, pp. 138-39, 256, cat. no. 83, illustrated in color, p. 139 (catalogue by J. S. Boggs) (dated 1886-1890)
Paris, Musée Marmatton, Les Impressionistes en privé, cent chefs-d’oeuvre de collections particulières, 13 February – 6 July 2014, p. 90, cat. no. 30, illustrated in color, p. 91 (dated c. 1890-1895)
Literature
P.-A. Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre, Paris, 1946, vol. III, p. 628, cat. no. 1088, illustrated, p. 629
F. Russoli and F. Minervino, L’opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, p. 138, cat. no. 1161, illustrated
PRIVATE COLLECTION, NEW YORK