Morning Ride

ca. 1866

Edgar Degas French, 1834-1917

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Modern, Level 2, Central Wing

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The Morning Ride depicts a group of people in contemporary dress riding along a beach near a port in Normandy. The painting is unfinished, which gives the viewer a unique insight into Degas's working methods. In a traditional manner, he first applied a preliminary drawing to lay out the composition. The traces of this procedure are still readily visible in the painting.

Title Morning Ride

Artwork Date ca. 1866

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: 33 1/2 × 25 1/2 inches (85.1 × 64.8 cm) Framed: 40 7/8 × 34 3/4 × 3 3/4 inches (103.8 × 88.3 × 9.5 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Modern Art to 1970

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Ralph Harman Booth Bequest Fund

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. 48.279

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Signed Signed, in red, lower left: Degas

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Provenance

the artist, Edgar Degas (Paris, France)

April 9, 1921, sold by (Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, France) auction Atelier E. Degas, 3rd sale, lot 21

1921, purchased by Clariet (Paris, France)

Hector Brame (Paris, France)

Etienne Bignou (Paris, France)

by 1932, (Howard Young, New York, New York, USA) Lewis Larned Coburn (Chicago, Illinois, USA)

Annie S. Coburn (Chicago, Illinois, USA) until 1944, bequest to the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois, USA) as part of the Lewis Larned Coburn Collection

May 4, 1944 sold by (Parke-Bernet, New York, New York, USA)

1944, purchased by (E. & A. Silberman Gallery, New York, New York, USA)

1948-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Manson, J.B. The Life and Work of Degas. New York, 1927, p. 48. [collection of L.L. Coburn.]

Rich, D.C. "The Bequest of Mrs. L. L. Coburn." Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 26, no. 6 (November 1932): pp. 66-71, pp. 68-69.

Exhibition of the Mrs. L. L. Coburn Collection: Modern Paintings and Watercolors. Exh. cat., Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, 1932, pp. 7, 14, cat 10.

Lemoisne, P.A. Degas et son oeuvre, Paris, 1946-1949, vol. 2, pp. 60-61, no. 118, pl. 118; vol. 4, p. 41.

Grigaut, P.L. "A Sketch by Degas." Bulletin of the DIA 28, no. 2 (1948): pp. 37-40 (ill.).

Grigaut, P.L. "A Sketch by Degas in the Detroit Institute of Arts." Art Quarterly 12, no. 2 (1949): pp. 190-191 (ill.).

Wescher, P. La Prima Idea, die Entwicklung der Olskizze von Tintoretto bis Picasso. Munich, 1960, pp. 102-103, pl. 57.

Degas' Racing World. Exh. cat., Wildenstein & Co. New York, 1968, cat. 2 (ill.).

Reff, T. "Works by Degas in the Detroit Institute of Arts." Bulletin of the DIA 53, no. 1 (1974): pp. 2, 8, 30-31, cat. 6 (ill.). [as ca. 1864-1868.]

Masterpieces from The Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Bunkamura Museum of Art, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, and Museum of Modern Art. Tokyo, Kyoto, and Ibaraki, 1989, pp. 90, 219-220, cat. 58 (ill.).

Kendall, R. Degas Landscapes. Exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Fine Arts. New York and Houston, 1993, pp. 73-74 (ill.), pp. 73-74, 281 (footnotes 47,48), cat. 12 (fig. 58).

Boggs, J.S. Degas at the Races. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1998, pp. 62, 65-67, 246, cat. 26 (ill.).

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

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