Study for "Scene from the Steeplechase: The Fallen Jockey"

1866

Medium	black and dark-brown chalks with stumping on blued white wove paper
Dimensions	9 1/8 x 14 1/8 in. (23.2 x 35.9 cm)
Object Number	1955.1397
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Study for "Scene from the Steeplechase: The Fallen Jockey", 1866, black and dark-brown chalks with stumping on blued white wove paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1397

Select Bibliography

Washington (DC): National Gallery of Art. Degas at the Races. (Cat. by Jean Boggs).. April 12-July 12, 1998.. Daulte, François. "Des Renoir et des chevaux." Connaissance des Arts 103 (September 1960): 26–38. John Rewald.. The History of Impressionism.. New York: Museum of Modern Art.. 1961, 1973.. Jackson (MS): Mississippi Museum of Art.. Art Camp registration brochure. Mississippi Museum of Art. 1994.. George Shackelford.. Edgar Degas. Tiny folio.. New York: Abbeville Press.. 1996.. 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. 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. Richmond (VA) Museum of Fine Arts.. Degas. May 23-July 9, 1978. 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. Grand Palais, Paris.. Degas. Feb. 9-May 16, 1988; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, June 16-Aug. 28, 1988; Metropolitan Museum, New York, Sept. 27, 1988-Jan. 8, 1989. Dayton (Ohio) Art Institute.. Edgar Degas: The Many Dimensions of a Master French Impressionist. Aug. 13-Oct. 9, 1994.Center for Fine Arts, Miami, April 2-May 15, 1994; Mississippi Museum of Arts, Jackson, May 30-July 31, 1994. 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. Brettell, Richard et al. L'impressionnisme, de France et d'Amérique: Monet, Renoir, Sisley, Degas. Musée Fabre de Montpellier, June 2- September 30, 2007; Musée de Grenoble, October 20, 2007- January 20, 2008. Versailles: Artlys; Montpellier: Musée Fabre; Grenoble: Musée de Grenoble. 2007.

Provenance

The artist (d. 1917, fourth studio sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 2–4 July 1919 [L. 657 and L. 658], no. 241a, ill., as Cheval emporté, sold to Knoedler, Paris, as agent for Clark); Robert Sterling Clark (1919–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.