Racehorse

c. 1881–85

Medium	Pastel on beige wove paper
Dimensions	Overall: 11 1/4 x 14 11/16 in. (28.5 x 37.3 cm)
Object Number	1955.1387
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Racehorse, c. 1881–85, Pastel on beige wove paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1387

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. Lemoisne, Paul-André. Degas et son oeuvre. Les Artistes et leurs oeuvres, études et documents. Paris: P. Brame et C. M. de Hauke, 1946. 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. 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..

Provenance

Atelier Degas (sale stamp, L. 658, at bottom right; atelier stamp, L. 657, on reverse; Sale III Paris, Georges Petit, April 7–9, 1919, no. 47b {illustrated});* Knoedler, Paris; Robert Sterling Clark. *"L." refers to F. Lugt, Les Marques de collections de dessins et d'estampes, Amsterdam, 1921 and Supplément, The Hague, 1956.