
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002444Gentleman Rider
by Edgar Degas
Inscriptions
Not signed
Provenance
Estate of the artist [Lugt 658]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, April 7-9, 1919, lot 165b. Given by Mrs. Josephine Patterson Albright, Woodstock, Ver., to the Art Institute, 1967.
Exhibition history
Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, "Edgar Degas," September 23, 1976-January 15, 1977, cat. 68; Musée de la Ville de Kyoto, and the Cultural Center of Fukuoka. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 19-September 23, 1984, pp. 51-52, cat. 20 (ill.), cat. by Richard R. Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh. Washington D.C., The National Gallery of Art, "Degas at the Races," April 12-July 12, 1998, cat. 35. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas: At the Track, On the Stage", July 1, 2015-February 26, 2016, second half of installation, no cat.
Publications
Paul A. Lemoisne, Degas et son Oeuvre, II (Paris, 1946), no. 119 (ill). Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), p. 38, no. 2E7. Richard Brettell, French Salon Artists 1800-1900 (Chicago, 1987), pp. 64, 67, and 118 (ill.). Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas (Chicago, 1996), pp. 22, 79 (ill.), and 108, pl. 8.
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
- 1866/70
- Medium
- Brush and black gouache, with touches of white and brown oil paint, over graphite, on pink wove paper, laid down on cream board
- Dimensions
- 44 × 28 cm (17 3/8 × 11 1/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Josephine P. Albright
- Accession no.
- 1967.240
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