About the Artwork
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.
Morning Ride
ca. 1866
Edgar Degas
1834-1917
French
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Oil on canvas
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)
Paintings
European Modern Art to 1970
Founders Society Purchase, Ralph Harman Booth Bequest Fund
48.279
Copyright Not Evaluated
Markings
Signed, in red, lower left: Degas
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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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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Edgar Degas, Morning Ride, ca. 1866, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Ralph Harman Booth Bequest Fund, 48.279.
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