  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.
  
  
  Title
  Morning Ride
  
  
  Artwork Date
  ca. 1866
  
  Artist
  Edgar Degas
  
  
  
  Life Dates
  1834-1917
  
  
  
  
  Nationality
  
  
  
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  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
  
  
  
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  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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