
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00003009Gentleman Rider
by Edgar Degas
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.
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
- 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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