Study for "Steeplechase—The Fallen Jockey": The Jockey

1866

Medium	Black chalk heightened with white on bluish-gray paper
Dimensions	Overall: 12 3/8 x 17 9/16 in. (31.5 x 44.6 cm)
Object Number	1955.1398
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Study for "Steeplechase—The Fallen Jockey": The Jockey, 1866, Black chalk heightened with white on bluish-gray paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1398

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. New York: Wildenstein & Co.. Degas's Racing World, March 21-April 27, 1968. 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.. Eduard Hüttinger.. Degas.. New York: Crown Publisher.. 1988.. Milner, Frank. Degas. London: Bison Books, 1990. 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.

Provenance

Atelier Degas (sale stamp, L. 658, at bottom left; atelier stamp, L. 657, on reverse; Sale IV, Paris, Georges Petit, July 2–4, 1919, no. 241b {illustrated});* Robert Sterling Clark. *"L." refers to F. Lugt, Les Marques de collections de dessins et d'estampes, Amsterdam, 1921 and Supplément, The Hague, 1956.