Edgar Degas
Race Horses
c. 1885-8830.2 x 40.6 cm
Pastel on wood
Signed lower left: Degas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Gift of Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, 1999, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002
Provenance
Théodore Duret, Paris, until 1894
his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 19 March 1894, nr. 14
with Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 1905, bought on 15 March 1905, sold same day to Petit
with Georges Petit, Paris, from 1905
with Jacques Dubourg, Paris, until 1935, sold to Wildenstein
Wildenstein family, Paris, 1935-63
with Wildenstein, New York, 1963-65, sold on 22 September 1965 to Annenberg
Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, Rancho Mirage, Calif., 1965-99
jointly with MMA, 1999-his death 2002
Other works by Edgar Degas
Hilaire de Gas
1857
1857
Dancers
1896
1896
Stefanina Primicile Carafa, Marchioness of Cicerale and Duchess of Montejasi
c. 1875
c. 1875
Portrait of Henri Rouart
1871
1871
Thérèse de Gas
c. 1863
c. 1863