Study for "Dead Fox in the Forest"

c. 1861–64

Medium	black and red chalks on cream wove paper
Dimensions	8 1/16 x 10 7/8 in. (20.4 x 27.7 cm)
Object Number	1955.1396
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Study for "Dead Fox in the Forest", c. 1861–64, black and red chalks on cream wove paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1396

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. Wildenstein & Company. An Exhibition of Treasures from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts: Paintings, drawings & rare silver, for the benefit of the Committee to Rescue Italian Art, inc. (CRIA). Exhibition catalogue. New York: Wildenstein & Company, 1967. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Edgar Degas (1834-1917). Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. 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.. Young, Mahonri Sharp. "Infinite Variety." Letter from the U.S.A. Apollo 85, no. 63 (May 1967): 38183. 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.

Provenance

The artist (d. 1917, fourth studio sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 2–4 July 1919 [L. 657 and L. 658], no. 225a, ill., as Renard mort, sold to Knoedler, Paris, as agent for Clark); Robert Sterling Clark (1919–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.