Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002355Studies of a Horse
by Edgar Degas
Provenance
Estate of the artist [stamp (Lugt 658), lower right in red]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, July 2-4, 1919, Fourth Degas estate sale, lot 223b. Alice Roullier, Chicago, for Robert Allerton (1873-1964), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1922.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 19-September 23, 1984, pp. 53-54, cat. 21 (ill.), cat. by Richard R. Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh. São Paulo, Brazil, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, "Degas: The universe of the Artist," May 16-August 20, 2006. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas: At the Track, On the Stage", July 1, 2015-February 26, 2016, first half of installation, no cat.
Publications
J.B. Manson, The Life and Work of Edgar Degas (London, 1927). Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), p. 39, no. 2E11.
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
- 1868/75
- Medium
- Graphite with stumping on tan wove paper
- Dimensions
- 30.5 × 24.6 cm (12 1/16 × 9 11/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- graphite
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Robert Allerton
- Accession no.
- 1922.5519
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