Horse Rearing
original wax 1880s, cast 1920/by 1964
Sculptor, French, 1834 - 1917
Edgar Degas
West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G4
Artwork overview
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Medium
copper alloy
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall with base: 31 x 20.2 x 25.5 cm (12 3/16 x 7 15/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
height without base (of horse): 30.6 cm (12 1/16 in.) -
Accession Number
1999.79.38
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(A.A. Hébrard, Paris); Degas heirs; sold 9 September 1962 to (Hector Brame, Paris); sold 9 March 1964 to Paul Mellon [1907-1999], Upperville, Virginia;[1] bequest 1999 to NGA.
[1] Sylvie Brame, e-mail dated 27 August 2008 to Anne Halpern. Mr. Mellon's acquisition date is given in his collection records as May 1964. E-mail and Mellon records are in NGA curatorial files.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1978
Degas, Virginia Museum, Richmond, 1978, no. 42.
1998
Degas at the Races, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1998, no. 128, repro.
2007
Déja Vu? Revealing Repetition in French Masterpieces, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Phoenix Art Museum, 2007-2008, no. 35, fig. 50.
Bibliography
1991
Pingeot, Anne. Degas Sculptures. Paris, 1991: no. 44.
1995
Campbell, Sara. "A Catalogue of Degas' Bronzes." Apollo 142 (August 1995): 13, no. 4.
2002
Czestochowski, Joseph S., and Anne Pingeot. Degas--Sculptures. Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes. Memphis, 2002: 129.
2010
Lindsay, Suzanne Glover, Daphne S. Barbour, and Shelley G. Sturman. Edgar Degas Sculpture. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2010: no. 10, 94-95, color repro.
Inscriptions
on top of base near left rear hoof: Degas [stamped replica of artist's signature]; on corner of base nearest right rear hoof: 4/HER.D and CIRE / PERDUE / AA HEBRARD
Markings
FM: A.A. Hébrard
Wikidata ID
Q63861726