Edgar Degas

Racehorses at Longchamp



Edgar Degas - Racehorses at Longchamp



Edgar Degas
Racehorses at Longchamp
c. 1871-74
34.1 x 41.8 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed, lower left: E Degas
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
S.A. Denio Collection


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Paul-André Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre, Paris,, 1946-48, nr. 334

Literature
Richard Kendall, Degas landscapes, New Haven, 1993, fig. 93
Bernhard Echte, Walter Feilchenfeldt, Kunstsalon Bruno & Paul Cassirer, 2011, p. 286


Exhibitions

1998 Degas at the Races, Nr. 49

Provenance

1900, Bernheim-Jeune, Paris
10 February 1900, sold by Bernheim-Jeune to Durand-Ruel, Paris
deposited with Cassirer, Berlin
10 June 1900, returned from Cassirer to Durand-Ruel, Paris
19 December 1900, deposited with M. Whitaker, Montreal
18 or 20 February 1901, sold by Durand-Ruel, Paris, to Durand-Ruel, New York
27 March 1901, sold by Durand-Ruel, New York, to Mrs. William H. Moore, New York
1 April 1901, sold by Mrs. Moore to Durand-Ruel, New York
1903, sold by Durand-Ruel, New York, to the MFA

External links

Museum of Fine Arts Accession number 03.1034

Other works by Edgar Degas


Edgar Degas Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando
Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando
1879

Edgar Degas Hélène Rouart in her father's study
Hélène Rouart in her father's study
c. 1886-95

Edgar Degas Portrait of Eugene Manet
Portrait of Eugene Manet
1874

Edgar Degas Three dancers
Three dancers
c. 1897-1901

Edgar Degas The convent of Santa Trinita dei Monti seen from a tower of the Villa Medici
The convent of Santa Trinita dei Monti seen from a tower of the Villa Medici
c. 1858