Your Collection

Add this item to your collection
Harvard Art Museums
Incorrect Username, Email, or Password
Medieval courtiers on horseback with attendants on foot

Light graphite lines on white paper describe a procession of medieval courtiers on horseback. At left in the foreground, a horse and rider in profile advance to the right. The rider, a young man wearing a crown, a cape and light armor, turns his head and looks toward the viewer as young attendants holding spears walk alongside him. Ahead of him at right, two riders on horses stand facing us, looking toward the first rider as if waiting for him to pass. Quick lines indicate trees behind them and hills in the distance.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1929.259
People
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, French (Paris, France 1834 - 1917 Paris, France)
After Benozzo Gozzoli, Italian (Florence, Italy 1420 - 1497 Pistoia, Italy)
Title
Lorenzo de' Medici and Attendants after "The Procession of the Magi," by Benozzo Gozzoli
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1860
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298898

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
25.9 x 30.4 cm (10 3/16 x 11 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: u.l., graphite: Florence 1860.
  • stamp: l.r.: Vente stamp [L. 658] in red

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Created, Atelier Degas sold at Vente IV, 1919. Item no. 91c. Vaudoyer. César M. de Hauke, Paris. Drouot, Paris, sold at auction, 1928. Sale, 12-13 November, 1928, no. 368. Henry S. Bowers, Purchased from Drouot, Paris, 1928, Gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1929. Sale, 12-13 November 1928

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Henry S. Bowers, Class of 1900
Accession Year
1929
Object Number
1929.259
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request.

Publication History

  • Catalogue des tableaux, pastels et dessins par Edgar Degas et provenant de son atelier 4e vente, July 2-4, 1919, auct. cat., Galerie Georges Petit (Paris, France, July 2 - July 4, 1919), no. 91c, repr.
  • Degas, checklist, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1931), no. 14
  • John A. Walker, "Degas et les maîtres anciens", Gazette des Beaux-Arts (Paris, France, September 1933), vol. X, p. 185
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 659, fig. 337
  • Masterpieces of 19th and 20th Century French Drawing from the Fogg Museum..., brochure, Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI, 1941), checklist no. 9
  • Ingres and Degas: Two Classical Draughtsmen, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1961), no. 11
  • A Generation of Draughtsmen, exh. cat., University of Michigan Museum of Art (Ann Arbor, MI, 1962), no. 49, pl. 1c
  • Theodore Reff, "New Light on Degas's Copies", The Burlington Magazine (London, England, June 1964), vol. CVI, p. 251
  • Richard Thomson, The Private Degas, exh. cat., Arts Council of Great Britain, London (London, England, 1987), no. 12; p. 93, fig. 123
  • Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art / National Gallery of Canada (New York, NY and Ottawa, Canada, 1988), under no. 304, fig. 288
  • Ronald Pickvance, "Degas et les chevaux", Degas, Société française de promotion artistique (Paris, France, 1993), p. 31; repr. pp. 28-29
  • Richard Kendall, Degas Landscapes, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT, 1993), pp. 60, 67
  • Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas at the Races, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C., 1998), no. 4, repr. color p. 24, pp. 23-24
  • James Cuno, "After the Benozzo Gozzoli Frescoes in the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, Florence", Dear Print Fan: A Festschrift for Marjorie B. Cohn, ed. Craigen Bowen, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2001), pp. 83-90, fig. 1, pp. 84, 87-88
  • 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. 20, fig. 57, p. 32
  • Christopher Lloyd, Impressionism: Pastels, Watercolors, Drawings, exh. cat., Milwaukee Art Museum (Milwaukee, WI, 2011), p. 38, repr. p. 37 as fig. 4
  • Henri Loyrette, Degas at the Opéra, exh. cat., Musée d'Orsay (Paris, 2019), pp. 188, repr. p. 189 as fig. 185

Exhibition History

  • Exhibition of Drawings by Degas, Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York, 10/27/1930 - 11/15/1930
  • Degas, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/09/1931 - 05/30/1931
  • Drawings by Degas, City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, 01/01/1932 - 12/31/1932
  • Edgar Degas: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Sculpture, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, 11/28/1933 - 12/18/1933
  • Masterpieces of 19th and 20th Century French Drawing from the Fogg Museum of Art at Harvard University and the Museum of Modern Art of New York City, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 05/01/1941 - 06/01/1941
  • Degas: Loan exhibition, for the Benefit of the Citizens' Committee for Children of New York, Inc., Wildenstein Gallery, New York, New York, 04/07/1960 - 05/07/1960
  • Ingres and Degas: Two Classical Draughtsmen, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/24/1961 - 05/20/1961
  • A Generation of Draughtsmen, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 04/25/1962 - 05/29/1962
  • The Private Degas, The Whitworth Art Gallery, 01/17/1987 - 02/28/1987; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 03/14/1987 - 05/03/1987
  • Degas at the Races, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 04/12/1998 - 07/12/1998
  • Degas at Harvard, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/2005 - 11/27/2005

Verification Level

This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu