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Edgar Degas

Thoroughbred Horse Walking, Part of the Neck Missing, original wax early 1870s, cast c. 1920/1960s

West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G4

Medium

copper alloy

Dimensions

overall with base: 13.2 x 4 x 20.3 cm (5 3/16 x 1 9/16 x 8 in.)
height without base (of horse): 12.9 cm (5 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Accession Number

1999.79.39

Artists / Makers

Edgar Degas (sculptor) French, 1834 - 1917

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Inscription

on base at front right: Degas [stamped replica of artist's signature]; on base at back left: 66 / HER.D; on base at back left, Hébrard founder's stamp

Marks and Labels

FM: A.A. Hébrard

Provenance

(A.A. Hébrard, Paris); Degas heirs; sold to (Hector Brame, Paris); sold January 1964 to Paul Mellon [1907-1999], Upperville, Virginia;[1] bequest 1999 to NGA.

[1] Mellon collection records, in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Brame, Hector
Hébrard, Adrien-Aurélien
Mellon, Paul

Bibliography

1991: Pingeot, Anne. Degas Sculptures. Paris, 1991: no. 38.

1995: Campbell, Sara. "A Catalogue of Degas' Bronzes." Apollo 142 (August 1995): 43, no. 66.

2002: Czestochowski, Joseph S., and Anne Pingeot. Degas--Sculptures. Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes. Memphis, 2002: 251.

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. 5, 78-79, color repro.

2017: Barbour, Daphne, and Shelley Sturman. "Casting Degas's Sculpture into Bronze: A Closer Look." In Degas, Daphne Barbour and Suzanne Quillen Lomax, eds. Facture. Conservation, Science, Art History 3 (2017): 78-111, esp. 94-96, fig. 13 (detail).