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A medieval courtier on horseback with two other riders behind him

Light lines and darker shading in graphite describe three riders on horseback in a landscape. At lower left, in three quarter profile, a young male in medieval court dress and a cap with tall feathers sits atop a horse. He looks at the viewer as the horse lifts one foreleg to step forward. Behind him, two similar riders look at each other. In the lower right quarter, a large rectangular space is left blank. Shaded masses in the background indicate trees and distant hills.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1929.260
People
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, French (Paris, France 1834 - 1917 Paris, France)
After Benozzo Gozzoli, Italian (Florence, Italy 1420 - 1497 Pistoia, Italy)
Title
Three Pages after "The Procession of the Magi," by Benozzo Gozzoli
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1860
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298899

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite and prepared black chalk on thin off-white wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 41.6 x 20.2 cm (16 3/8 x 7 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: l.r., graphite: Florence, 1860
  • stamp: l.l.: Vente stamp [L. 658] in red

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Created, Atelier Degas sold at Vente IV, 1919. Item no. 91a. Vaudoyer. César M. de Hauke, Paris. Drouot, Paris, sold at auction, 1928. Sale, 12-13 November, 1928, no. 368. Henry S. Bowers, Purchased from Drouot, Paris, 1928, Gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1929. Sale, 12-13 November 1928, no. 368

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Henry S. Bowers, Class of 1900
Accession Year
1929
Object Number
1929.260
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Catalogue des tableaux, pastels et dessins par Edgar Degas et provenant de son atelier 4e vente, July 2-4, 1919, auct. cat., Galerie Georges Petit (Paris, France, July 2 - July 4, 1919), no. 91a, repr.
  • John A. Walker, "Degas et les maîtres anciens", Gazette des Beaux-Arts (Paris, France, September 1933), vol. X, p. 185
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 660, fig. 336
  • Masterpieces of 19th and 20th Century French Drawing from the Fogg Museum..., brochure, Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI, 1941), checklist no. 10
  • Theodore Reff, "Degas's Copies of Older Art", The Burlington Magazine (June 1963), CV, fig. 7, p. 246
  • Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas at the Races, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C., 1998), no. 3, repr. color p. 23, pp. 22-23
  • James Cuno, "After the Benozzo Gozzoli Frescoes in the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, Florence", Dear Print Fan: A Festschrift for Marjorie B. Cohn, ed. Craigen Bowen, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2001), pp. 83-90, fig. 2, pp. 84, 87-88
  • Property of the Greentree Foundation from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney, auct. cat., Sotheby's (New York, May 5, 2004), fig. 2, p. 91
  • 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. 21, fig. 55, p. 32

Exhibition History

  • Drawings by Degas, City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, 01/01/1932 - 12/31/1932
  • 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
  • Degas at the Races, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 04/12/1998 - 07/12/1998

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