The Riders

Edgar Degasc. 1885

Details

Title: The Riders
Creator: Edgar Degas
Date Created: c. 1885
Physical Dimensions: overall: 73.03 × 90.81 cm (28 3/4 × 35 3/4 in.) framed: 85.09 × 104.14 × 5.08 cm (33 1/2 × 41 × 2 in.)
Provenance: The artist; (Ambroise Vollard, Paris);[1] purchased 1911 by Jules Strauss [1861-1943], Paris;[2] (his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris,15 December 1932, no. 36); purchased by (André Schoeller [1879-1955], Paris).[3] Collection Schwenck, Paris, by 1946.[4] Paul Mellon [1907-1999], Upperville, Virginia; bequest 1999 to NGA, with life interest to his wife, Rachel Lambert Mellon [1910-2014]. [1] The painting is reproduced in _l’Album Degas_, Galerie A. Vollard, Paris, 1914: pl. 54. [2] Pauline Baer, the great-granddaughter of Jules Strauss, kindly shared with NGA the details of her great-grandfather's purchase of the painting (see her e-mail of 6 September 2016, in NGA curatorial files). The purchase is recorded in Strauss's personal papers with the following comment: "de chez Vollard provenant directement de Degas." [3] Annotated sales catalogue in Chester Dale collection, NGA Library. Schoeller was one of the directors at the Galerie Georges Petit and often an expert at sales, so it is possible this painting was bought in at the Strauss sale. [4] Per Lemoisne, Paul André. _Degas et son oeuvre_. 4 vols. Paris: Arts et metiers graphiques, 1946-1949. Vols. 2 and 3, 1946. (Reprinted in 5 vols., New York and London, 1984): no. 859, repro.
Medium: oil on canvas

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