
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002137Jockey
by Edgar Degas
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.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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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