Currently not on view
Jockeys on horses,
1887–89
Edgar Degas, 1834–1917; born and died Paris, France
x1943-218
Information
Title
Jockeys on horses
Dates
1887–89
Maker
Medium
Charcoal, drawn on both sides of sheet
Dimensions
58.2 × 31.8 cm (22 15/16 × 12 1/2 in.)
frame: 81.5 × 51.3 × 3.5 cm (32 1/16 × 20 3/16 × 1 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Albert E. McVitty, Class of 1898
Object Number
x1943-218
Signatures
Stamped in red ink, lower left: Degas [L.658]
Culture
Type
Materials
Subject
Collection of the artist, sold at the 3rd Degas Sale (#377), 6-7 November, 1918, Paris. Albert E. McVitty [1876-1948]; gifted to Princeton University Art Museum.
- Degas' racing world: a loan exhibition of paintings, drawings and bronzes, (New York: Wildenstein, 1968)., cat. no. 56 (illus.)
- 19th and 20th century French drawings from the Art Museum, Princeton University: an introduction, (Princeton, NJ: Distributed by Princeton University Press, 1972)., pp. 54, 90, cat. no. 14; p. 55 (illus.)
- Dominique H. Vasseur and Karen Wilkin, Edgar Degas: the many dimensions of a master French impressionist: an exhibition, (Dayton, OH: Dayton Art Institute, 1994)., cat. no. 42; p. 81 (color illus.)
- Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas at the races, (Washington: National Gallery of Art; New Haven, CT; London: Yale University Press, 1998)., no. 86 (illus.); p. 14
