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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Jockey
    Edgar Degas. Jockey, 1866–68. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00002137

    Jockey

    by Edgar Degas

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    Estate of the artist [stamp (Lugt 658), lower left in red]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, July 2-4, 1919, Fourth Degas estate sale, lot 215b. Durand-Ruel, Paris. Alice Roullier, Chicago, for Robert Allerton (1873-1964), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1922.

    Exhibition history

    St Louis, Mo., St. Louis Art Museum, "Drawings by Degas," 1966-67, pp. 127-128, cat. 80, cat. by Jean Sutherland Boggs. Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland, "Degas," August 13-September 30, 1979, p. 12, cat. 7, cat. by Ronald Pickvance. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 19-September 23, 1984, p. 50, cat. 18 (ill.), cat. by Richard R. Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh. Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, "Degas and the Races," April 12-July 12, 1998, p. 115, cat. 64 (ill.), cat by Jean Sutherland Boggs, et. al. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas: At the Track, On the Stage", July 1, 2015-February 26, 2016, no cat.

    Publications

    Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 16:1 (January-February 1922), pp. 11-12 (ill.). J.B. Manson, The Life and Work of Edgar Degas (London, 1927). Jean Sutherland Boggs, Drawings by Degas (St. Louis, 1966), pp. 126, no. 80 (ill.). Eugenia Parry Janis, "Review of Degas Drawings...," Burlington Magazine 109 (July 1967), pl. 43. Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), p. 40, no. 2F1.

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Edgar Degas / French, 1834-1917
    Date
    1866–68
    Medium
    Graphite with stumping on tan wove paper
    Dimensions
    32.7 × 24.7 cm (12 7/8 × 9 3/4 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    graphite
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Gift of Robert Allerton
    Accession no.
    1922.5518

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