Inscription
lower right: E. Degas 71
Provenance
Purchased 26 April 1872 from the artist by (Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris); sent 12 December 1872 to (Durand-Ruel Gallery, London); sold 5 March 1874 to Jean Baptiste Faure [1830-1914], Paris; returned by Faure to Degas at the artist's request; gift to James Tissot [1836-1902], Paris; purchased 11 March 1890 by (Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris); acquired the same day by Joseph Durand-Ruel, Paris; acquired 25 August 1891 by Paul Durand-Ruel [1831-1922] for his private collection, Paris; his estate; sent 16 November 1925 to (Durand-Ruel Gallery, New York), where it was registered as stock in January 1936;[1] Mr. and Mrs. Jean D'Alayer, of the Durand-Ruel family, 1951 to at least 1960.[2] (Janet Traeger Salz, Inc., New York), by 1991; (sale, Sotheby's, London, 30 June 1992, no. 4, bought in); sold March 1995 to NGA.
Exhibition History
- 1905
- Pictures by Boudin, Cézanne, Degas, Manet, Monet, Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley, Grafton Galleries, London, 1905, no. 60
- 1937
- Exhibition of Masterpieces by Degas, Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York, 1937, no. 18
- 1943
- Exhibition Celebrating One Hundred Fortieth Anniversary, Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York, 1943, no. 7.
- 1947
- An Exhibition for the Benefit of American Aid to France, Inc., Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York, 1947, no. 17
- 1951
- Degas, Kunstmuseum, Bern, 1951, no. 16
- 1955
- Degas dans les collections françaises, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1955, no. 46
- 1960
- Edgar Degas 1834-1917, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1960, no. 12, repro., as Chevaux dans la Prairie.
- 1991
- Paintings, Pastels and Drawings by Edgard Degas, David Bathurst, Ltd., London, 1991, no. 2.
- 1998
- Degas at the Races, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1998, no. 39, repro.
- 2013
- Intimate Impressionism from the National Gallery of Art, Museo dell'Ara Pacis Augustae, Rome (exhibition title in this venue: Impressionist Gems); California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio; Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo, Seattle Art Museum, 2013-2016.
- 2016
- Degas: A New Vision, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2016-2017, unnumbered catalogue, repro.
Bibliography
- 1890
- L'art dans les deux mondes 5 (20 December 1890): 45, repro.
- 1892
- Lecomte, Georges. L'Art Impressionniste d'après la Collection privée de M. Durand-Ruel. Paris, 1892: 60-61, repro.
- 1908
- Grappe, Georges. Edgard Degas. Paris, 1908:26, repro.
- 1918
- Lafond, Paul. Degas. 2 vols. Paris, 1918-1919: 2(1919):44, repro.
- 1931
- Guérin, Marcel, ed. Lettres de Degas. Paris, 1931:17
- 1939
- Venturi, Lionello. Les archives de l'impressionnisme. 2 vols. Paris and New York, 1939: 194
- 1946
- Lemoisne, Paul André. Degas et son oeuvre. 4 vols. Paris: Arts et metiers graphiques, 1946-1949. Vols. 2 and 3, 1946. Reprinted in 5 vols., New York and London, 1984: 5:no. 289.
- 1957
- Cabanne, Pierre. Edgard Degas. Paris, 1957:107-108
- 1970
- Minervino, Fiorella. L'opera completa di Degas. Milan, 1970:no. 198, repro.
- 1988
- Degas. Exh. cat. Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; National Gallery of Canada; Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1988-1989:221-223
- 1993
- Kendall, Richard. Degas Landscapes. New Haven and London, 1993: 112-113, figs. 91, 101.
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