About the Artwork
Jockey
ca. 1878
Edgar Degas
1834-1917
French
Unknown
Graphite pencil on tan (wove?) paper
Sheet: 12 × 8 7/8 inches (30.5 × 22.5 cm) Framed: 21 1/4 × 18 1/8 inches (54 × 46 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Bequest of John S. Newberry
65.147
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Markings
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Stamp, in red ink, left center: Degas (Lugt 658)
Provenance
April 7-9, 1919, Edgar Degas sale, third sale, no. 128.1
1919, purchased by Franz W. Koenigs (1881-1941) (Haarlem, Netherlands)
by descent to his daughter, Nela van Eyck-Koenigs (1923-1993) by 1958, [Gallery Hector Brame] (Paris, France) 1958, purchased by [Marianne Feilchenfeldt, Kunsthandlung Walter Feilchenfeldt] (Zurich, Switzerland)
1959, purchased by John S. Newberry (1910-1964) (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)
1965-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Catalogue des tableaux, pastels et dessins par Edgar Degas. Sales cat., Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1919, third sale, no. 128.1.
Fransche Meesters uit de XIXe Eeuw: Teekeningen, Aquarellen, Pastels. N.V. Amsterdamsche Kunsthandel Paul Cassirer & Co., Amsterdam, 1938, p. 13, no. 54.
The John S. Newberry Collection: Watercolors, Drawings, and Sculpture Selected from the John Stoughton Newberry Bequest and Gifts. Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 1965, pp. 30-31 (ill.).
Mendelowitz, D., Mendelowitz's Giude to Drawing, New York, 1982, p. 22 (ill.).
Reff, Theodore, "Works by Degas in the Detroit Institute of Arts," Bulletin of the DIA 53, no.1, (1974): p. 15 (ill.).
Reunion des musees nationaux. Degas. Exh. cat., Paris, Ottawa, New York, 1988, p. 265 (fig. 132).
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Edgar Degas, Jockey, ca. 1878, graphite pencil on tan (wove?) paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of John S. Newberry, 65.147.
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