Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005892Ploughed Field Bordered by Trees
by Edgar Degas
Inscriptions
Inscribed verso, upper right, in graphite: "34"; in black ballpoint pen: "5 / 23"
Provenance
Estate of the artist [stamp (Lugt 658), recto, lower left, in red]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, July 2–4, 1919, lot 37, to Henri Cottevielle, Paris; by descent; sold, Sotheby’s, London, June 29, 1999, lot 227, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA.; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, pp. 136-137, cat. 95 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, "The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," March 15-June 15, 2014, no cat.
Publications
Paul-André Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre II (Paris, 1946), pp. 358–59, cat. 634 (ill.). Jacques Lassaigne and Fiorella Minervino, Tout l’oeuvre peint de Degas (Milan, 1970), p. 116, cat. 646 (ill.). Richard Kendall, Degas Landscapes (New Haven, Conn., 1993), pp., 196, 276, cat. 8, p. 289 n. 51. Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), pp. 136-137, cat. 95 (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
- c. 1892
- Medium
- Pastel, over color monotype, on off-white wove paper, laid down on cream card
- Dimensions
- Image: 25.3 × 34.5 cm (10 × 13 5/8 in.); Sheet: 27 × 35.9 cm (10 11/16 × 14 3/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- prints and drawing
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2013.922
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