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