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    Gentleman Rider
    Edgar Degas. Gentleman Rider, 1866/70. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00003009

    Gentleman Rider

    by Edgar Degas

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Not signed.

    Provenance

    Estate of the artist [stamp (Lugt 658) lower left, in red]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, April 7-9, 1919, lot 165. Dr. Georges Viau (1855-1939), Paris [according to invoice]. Jacques Seligmann and Company, New York, by April 1931 [as per letter from The Rhode Island School of Design Museum in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1945.

    Exhibition history

    Rhode Island School of Design Museum, "French Paintings and Drawings of the 19th and 20th Centuries," April 8-17, 1931. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Old and New," 1946, p. 12, cat. 13, pl. XX, cat. by Carl Schniewind. Washington, D.C., Phillips Memorial Gallery, "Loan Exhibition of Drawings and Pastels by Edgar Degas (1834-1917)," March 30-April 30, 1947, cat. 23. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 19-September 23, 1984, pp. 51-52, cat. 19 (ill.), cat. by Richard R. Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh. Dayton, Ohio, The Dayton Art Institute, "Edgar Degas: Exploring Dimensions," August 12-October 9, 1994. Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, "Degas at the Races," April 12-July 12, 1998, cat. 36.

    Publications

    Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas at the Races (Washington, 1998), pp. 77, cat. 36 (ill.). Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), p. 38, no. 2E8. Phillips Memorial Gallery, Loan Exhibition of Drawings & Pastels by Edgar Degas 1834-1917 (Washington, 1947), no. 23.

    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
    1866/70
    Medium
    Graphite, with traces of brush and white gouache, on pink wove paper, laid down on cream board
    Dimensions
    43.5 × 27 cm (17 3/16 × 10 11/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    graphite
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    The Charles Deering Collection
    Accession no.
    1945.16

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