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Three horses and riders seen from behind

Against a pale tan background, soft black lines and light shading depict three jockeys in light colored silks, mounted on horses walking away from the viewer. The riders at center and left are seen from directly behind, and the horse at left turns its head to the left as the jockey looks ahead and leans right. Next to him, the horse at center faces straight ahead, as its rider glances down and to the right. The jockey at right also looks down and right, as his horse, a half step ahead of the others, angles slightly left.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.809
People
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, French (Paris, France 1834 - 1917 Paris, France)
Title
Three Mounted Jockeys
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1868-1870
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297652

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite and black chalk on tan wove paper
Dimensions
19.7 × 27.6 cm (7 3/4 × 10 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • stamp: l.l.: Vente signature stamp [L. 658] in red

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Created, Atelier Degas sold at Vente III, no. 354b, 1919.
René Degas, by descent (artist's brother), 1919, sale at Drouot, Paris, 1927. Sale date: November 10, 1927, no. 22b, repr.; sold in a frame with another drawing of a jockey.
Thomson [?], Purchased at René Degas sale, Drouot, Paris, 1927, presumably sold to Birnbaum for Winthrop, 1928. Drouot sale, November 10, 1927, no. 22b. Thomson (handwritten next to the entry in the sale catalogue) may have been Lawson Thompson, Hitchin, UK [L.s. 1770]. Purchased for 12,500 F. Sold July 2, 1928.
Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Purchased (through Birnbaum), 4, Bequest to Fogg Art Museum, 1943. Purchased for £115

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.809
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan, ed., One Hundred Master Drawings, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1949), p. 178, repr.
  • Agnes Mongan, "The Fogg Art Museum's Collection of Drawings", Harvard Library Bulletin, Harvard University (Cambridge, 1958), vol. 3, no. 2, March, pp. 5-9, p. 202
  • Agnes Mongan, Great Drawings of All Time, ed. Ira Moskowitz and Victoria Thorson, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, 1962), cat. no. 783, n.p., repr.
  • Martha Bennett Stiles, "A Boston Sortie: Degas and Mrs. Gardner", Mankind [magazine], Mankind Publishing Co. (Los Angeles, CA, August 1973), vol. IV, no. 2, pp. 44, 47, repr. p. 45
  • Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art / National Gallery of Canada (New York, NY and Ottawa, Canada, 1988), fig. 85, under no. 96
  • Colin B. Bailey and Joseph J. Rishel, Masterpieces of Impressionism & Post-Impressionism, exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA, 1989), p. 17, fig. 31
  • Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas at the Races, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C., 1998), p. 95, fig. 59
  • Marjorie B. Cohn and Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas at Harvard, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums/Yale University Press (Cambridge and New Haven, 2005), cat. no. 26, fig. 71
  • Susan Alyson Stein and Asher Miller, ed., Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press (New York, 2009), p. 45, repr. in b/w on p. 45 as fig. 40

Exhibition History

  • Degas at Harvard, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/2005 - 11/27/2005

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