Fallen Jockey (study for "Scene from the Steeplechase: The Fallen Jockey")
c. 1866
Artist, French, 1834 - 1917

Artwork overview
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Medium
black chalk and pastel on brown wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 26.6 x 35.2 cm (10 1/2 x 13 7/8 in.)
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Accession
1999.79.11
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Catalogue Raisonné
Lemoisne 1946, no. 144
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Atelier Degas (Lugt 657), Paris; Collection René de Gas, Paris, until 1927; (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 10 November 1927, no. 21, repr.); Collection Pellet, Paris; (sale, Palais Galliera, Paris, 29 November 1972, no. 38, repr.); Otto Wertheimer; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA, 1972; gift to NGA, 1999.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1998
Degas at the Races, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998, no. 22.
1999
An Enduring Legacy: Masterpieces from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1999-2000.
2012
Impressionism: Pastels, Watercolors, Drawings. Albertina, Vienna, 2012 (not in catalogue).
2016
In Celebration of Paul Mellon, NGA, 2016.
Bibliography
1946
Lemoisne, Paul André. Degas et son oeuvre. 4 vols. Paris: Arts et metiers graphiques, 1946-1949. Vols. 2 and 3, 1946. Reprinted in 5 vols., New York and London, 1984.
1961
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. 3rd rev. ed., New York, 1961: 140.
1984
Lemoisne, Paul-André. Degas et son Oeuvre 5 vols. New York, 1984: 72-73, no. 144.
1999
"The Mellon Gift to the National Gallery of Art, Washington." Apollo 150, no. 454 (December 1999): 13, fig. 4.
2019
Schulman, Michael.Edgar Degas, Digital Critical Catalogue. MS-1892.
Inscriptions
by later hand, upper center verso in graphite: 15; by later hand, along right edge of verso in green pencil: 49 x 36% / vert vif / ppt s/c / (not deciphered) / autour / (not deciphered)
Wikidata ID
Q64556382