Three Mounted Jockeys
c. 1868-1870
Artists
Dimensions
19.7 × 27.6 cm (7 3/4 × 10 7/8 in.)
Provenance
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Created, Atelier Degas sold at Vente III, no. 354b, 1919. René Degas, by descent (artist's brother), 1919, sale at Drouot, Paris, 1927. Sale date: November 10, 1927, no. 22b, repr.; sold in a frame with another drawing of a jockey. Thomson [?], Purchased at René Degas sale, Drouot, Paris, 1927, presumably sold to Birnbaum for Winthrop, 1928. Drouot sale, November 10, 1927, no. 22b. Thomson (handwritten next to the entry in the sale catalogue) may have been Lawson Thompson, Hitchin, UK [L.s. 1770]. Purchased for 12,500 F. Sold July 2, 1928. Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Purchased (through Birnbaum), 4, Bequest to Fogg Art Museum, 1943. Purchased for £115
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