Thoroughbred Horse Walking, Part of the Neck Missing

original wax early 1870s, cast c. 1920/1960s

Edgar Degas

Sculptor, French, 1834 - 1917

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On View

West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G4

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    copper alloy

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

  • 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.)

  • Accession

    1999.79.39

Artwork history & notes

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

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).

Inscriptions

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

Markings

FM: A.A. Hébrard

Wikidata ID

Q63861752

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