Jockeys on Horseback before Distant Hills

1884

Edgar Degas French, 1834-1917

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Modern, Level 2, Central Wing

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Title Jockeys on Horseback before Distant Hills

Artwork Date 1884

Artist Edgar Degas

Life Dates 1834-1917

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 17 11/16 × 21 5/8 inches (44.9 × 54.9 cm) Framed: 25 1/8 × 28 3/8 × 3 1/4 inches (63.8 × 72.1 × 8.3 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Modern Art to 1970

Credit Gift of W. Warren and Virginia Shelden in memory of Mrs. Allan Shelden

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 1998.65

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Signed Signed and dated, lower left: Degas 84

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Provenance

(Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, France) Albert Spencer (New York, New York, USA)

1911 (Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, France and New York, New York, USA)

by 1913-1934, Lillie P. Bliss (New York, New York, USA)

1934, gift to the Museum of Modern Art (New York, New York, USA)

Mr. & Mrs. Allan Shelden II (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)

by inheritance to Mr. & Mrs. W. Warren Shelden (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)

1998-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

International Exhibition of Modern Art (Armory Show). Exh. cat., 69th Regiment Armory, 1913, pp. 66, 81, cat. 1012. [as "Chevaux de Course"]

Lafond, P. Degas. Paris, 1919, vol. 2, pp. 41-44.

"List of Loans Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 15, no. 5 (May 1920): 112–119, p. 115. [as "Before the Race"]

"French, English, and American Paintings." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 15, no. 9 (September 1920): 202–209, pp. 206, 207 (ill.).

"Metropolitan Museum’s Anniversary." American Art News 18, no. 29 (May 8, 1920): p. 2.

Vollard, Ambroise. Degas (1834-1917). Paris, 1924, p. 48-49 (ill.).

Pene du Bois, G. "Degas." The Art 17 (1931): p. 606 (ill.).

Loan Exhibition of Impressionist and Post-impressionist Paintings. Exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1921, cat. 31.

Memorial Exhibition: The Collection of the Late Lillie P. Bliss. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1931, cat. 59 (ill.).

Degas. Exh. cat., Addison Gallery, Philips Academy. Andover, 1931, cat. 38.

Degas. Exh. cat., John Herron Art Institute. Indianapolis, 1932, cat. 35 (ill.).

A Century of Progress. Exh. cat., Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, 1933, cat. 288.

Edgar Degas. Exh. cat., Smith College Museum of Art Northampton, 1933, cat. 14.

The Lillie P. Bliss Collection. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1934, vol. 44, no. 25 (ill.).

The Studio, vol. 1 (ill.).

Degas. Exh. cat., Musée de l'Orangerie. Paris, 1937, cat. 37.

Works by Edgar Degas. Exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, 1947, cat. 43.

Lemoisne, P.A. Degas et son oeuvre. Paris, vol. 3, 1946, p. 436, cat. 767, (ill.); vol. 4, pp. 21, 50, 58, 74, 83, 86, 94. [as Detroit, private collection.]

Grigaut, P.L. The Two Sides of the Medal: French Painting from Gérôme to Gauguin. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1954, p. 33, cat. 73.

Boggs, John Sutherland. Degas at the Races. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1998, pp. 134-137, cat. 80 (ill.).

Wissman, F.W. European Vistas: Cultural Landscapes. Detroit, 2000, pp. 30, 32-33 (ill.).

Dumas, A. Degas and the Italians in Paris. Exh. cat., National Galleries of Scotland. Edinburgh, 2003, p. 92.

Kushner, Marilyn Satin and Kimberly Orcutt, eds. The Armory Show at 100: Modernism and Revolution. Exh. cat., New York Historical Society Museum and Library, 2013, pp. 310, fig. 243, 440.

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Edgar Degas, Jockeys on Horseback before Distant Hills, 1884, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of W. Warren and Virginia Shelden in memory of Mrs. Allan Shelden, 1998.65.