Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00003370Horse and 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 106. Joseph Winterbotham, Jr. (1878-1954), Chicago and Burlington, Vermont, by 1936 [Chicago 1936]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1954.
Exhibition history
Chicago, The Arts Club, "Exhibition of the Joseph Winterbotham Collection," December 9-31, 1936, cat. 50. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 19-September 23, 1984, p. 126, cat. 61 (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 The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas: At the Track, On the Stage", July 1, 2015-February 26, 2016, no cat.
Publications
Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), p. 44, no. 2G4. Karen Wilkin, Degas: The Many Dimensions of a Master French Impressionist (Dayton, 1994), pp. 82, no. 43 (ill.).
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
- 1887/90
- Medium
- Charcoal on cream card
- Dimensions
- 25.4 × 30.3 cm (10 × 11 15/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- charcoal
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Bequest of Joseph Winterbotham
- Accession no.
- 1954.329
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