A horse and rider sketched on a printed page from a book
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

In the upper left quadrant of a printed page taken from a book, beneath a line of printed text, quick lines in graphite depict a rider in jockey’s silks mounted on a horse. Horse and rider are shown in profile facing left and looking ahead as the horse begins to rear up on its hind legs. The horse’s head bows down as Its forelegs are raised in the air. The right half of the page contains a block of text in French which runs sideways from top to bottom. The lower left quadrant contains a single line of text and a red stamped mark.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1947.20
People
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, French (Paris, France 1834 - 1917 Paris, France)
Title
Mounted Jockey
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1870
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297333

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on off-white wove paper (a copy of "Proclamation de l'Empereur")
Dimensions
actual: 20.7 x 25.7 cm (8 1/8 x 10 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • stamp: l.r.: Atelier stamp [L. 657] in red

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
César M. de Hauke, Gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1947.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of César de Hauke
Accession Year
1947
Object Number
1947.20
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Masterpieces of 19th and 20th Century French Drawing from the Fogg Museum..., brochure, Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI, 1941), no. 18
  • Agnes Mongan, French Drawings of Five Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, 1951), cat. no. 35, n.p.
  • Martha Bennett Stiles, "A Boston Sortie: Degas and Mrs. Gardner", Mankind [magazine], Mankind Publishing Co. (Los Angeles, CA, August 1973), vol. IV, no. 2, p. 44, repr. p. 47
  • Marjorie B. Cohn and Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas at Harvard, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums/Yale University Press (Cambridge and New Haven, 2005), cat. no. 30, fig. 72, p. 58

Exhibition History

  • Masterpieces of 19th and 20th Century French Drawing from the Fogg Museum of Art at Harvard University and the Museum of Modern Art of New York City, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 05/01/1941 - 06/01/1941
  • French Drawings of Five Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 05/15/1951 - 09/30/1951
  • Degas at Harvard, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/2005 - 11/27/2005

Verification Level

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