Gentleman Rider

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.

Gentleman Rider

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas

1866/70

Accession Number

52691

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.)

Classification

graphite

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

The Charles Deering Collection