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Jockey on a Rearing Horse

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas

French, 1834–1917

Jockey on a Rearing Horse

1890s

Medium black chalk and pastel on cream wove paper
Dimensions 9 3/16 x 14 3/16 in. (23.3 x 36 cm)
Object Number 1955.1399
Acquisition Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status Off View

Image Caption

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Jockey on a Rearing Horse, 1890s, black chalk and pastel on cream wove paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1399

Select Bibliography

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Ten: Degas. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1959. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty: A Selection of Nineteenth Century French Drawings. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1965. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Edgar Degas (1834-1917). Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.. Never Say Die. May 17-Sept. 14, 1980. Essay by David S. Brooke for brochure, "Three Cheers for the Twenty-Fifth." Fernandez, Rafael, and Alexandra R. Murphy. Degas in the Clark Collection. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1987. Washington (DC): National Gallery of Art. Degas at the Races. (Cat. by Jean Boggs).. April 12-July 12, 1998.. Nathan Goldstein.. The Art of Responsive Drawing.. Prentice-Hall.. 1973.. Nathan Goldstein.. The Art of Responsive Drawing, 2nd ed.. Prentice Hall.. 1976.. Goldstein, Nathan. The Art of Responsive Drawing. 3rd ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1984. Lemoisne, Paul-André. Degas et son oeuvre. Les Artistes et leurs oeuvres, études et documents. Paris: P. Brame et C. M. de Hauke, 1946. Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964. Brooke, David S., Rafael Fernandez, and Beth Carver Wees. Three Cheers for the Twenty-Fifth. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1980.

Provenance

The artist (d. 1917, third studio sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris,7–9 Apr. 1919 [L. 658], no. 47.3, ill., as Jockey et cheval se cabrant, sold to Knoedler, Paris, as agent for Clark); Robert Sterling Clark (1919–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.

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