c. 1868-1870
19.7 × 27.6 cm (7 3/4 × 10 7/8 in.)
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
Pen and dark brown ink over graphite on cream modern laid paper; verso: pen and brown ink
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack and brown ink with brown wash, on cream wove paper, framing lines in black and red ink
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19th centuryFrenchGraphite and white chalk on tracing paper, laid down
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor
19th-20th centuryFrenchBlack chalk with erasures on off-white paper, darkened
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19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk and white gouache on blue laid paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white wove paper
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18th-19th centuryFrenchGraphite and watercolor with incidental(?) white gouache on brown wove paper
19th-20th centuryFrench