Man Riding

c. 1875–77

Medium	brush and black essence with additions in brown and white gouache and white chalk on oiled brown wove paper
Dimensions	9 11/16 x 13 1/2 in. (24.6 x 34.3 cm); Frame: 16 x 22 in. (40.6 x 55.9 cm)
Object Number	1955.1400
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Man Riding, c. 1875–77, brush and black essence with additions in brown and white gouache and white chalk on oiled brown wove paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1400

Select Bibliography

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. 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. New York: Wildenstein & Co.. Degas's Racing World, March 21-April 27, 1968. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Edgar Degas (1834-1917). Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. Boston (MA): Museum of Fine Arts. Edgar Degas, The Reluctant Impressionist. June 20-Sept. 1, 1974. Cat. by Barbara S. Shapiro. 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.. Butler, Joseph T. "The AMerican Way with Art." Connoisseur 171, no. 688 (June 1969): 144–47. Lemoisne, Paul-André. Degas et son oeuvre. Les Artistes et leurs oeuvres, études et documents. Paris: P. Brame et C. M. de Hauke, 1946.

Provenance

The artist (d. 1917, fourth studio sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 2–4 July 1919 [L. 658], no. 273b, ill., as Cavalier); Henri Fèvre (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 22 June 1925, no. 30.2); Mme Gosset; Robert Sterling Clark (before 1955); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.