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Horse Walking
Edgar Degasoriginal wax possibly early 1870s, cast c. 1920/1921
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Horse Walking
- Creator: Edgar Degas
- Date Created: original wax possibly early 1870s, cast c. 1920/1921
- Physical Dimensions: overall with base: 21 x 9.7 x 26.7 cm (8 1/4 x 3 13/16 x 10 1/2 in.) height without base (of horse): 20.5 cm (8 1/16 in.)
- Provenance: (A.A. Hébrard, Paris); sold c. 1921 to (Walther Halvorsen), apparently for sale in New York;[1] sold or possibly consigned to (Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York), by 1922; possibly consigned 1923 to (Leicester Galleries, London); possibly consigned 1923 to (Casa Editrice d'Arte Enzo Pinci, Rome); possibly consigned 1924 to (Galerie Georges Petit, Paris); sent 1925 to (Ferargil Galleries, New York);[2] sold 1926 or later to Arthur Bloch [1882-1953], Philadelphia.[3] Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, Pennsylvania; by inheritance (or possibly a gift) to his wife, Edith G. Rosenwald [1893-1988], Jenkintown;[4] gift 1989 to NGA. [1] According to the archives of the Hébrard foundry, cited in Anne Pingeot, _Degas Sculptures_, Paris, 1991: no. 48 and "Repartition des bronzes avant 1936" on p. 196. See also Joseph S. Czestochowski and Anne Pingeot, _Degas Sculptures. Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes_, Memphis, 2002: 163. [2] See Caroline Durand-Ruel Godfroy's account in Pingeot 1991, 31. [3] Czestochowski and Pingeot 2002, 141, where 1926 is assigned as the year of purchase; however, given that the Ferargil Galleries "List of Sales, January 1926-March 20, 1936" (their records, 1900-1963, Reel D322, frames 351-424, Archives of American Art, Washington, D.C.) spanned a ten year period, the purchase could have been made later. Although Ferargil's records list Arthur "Block" as the buyer, this is almost certainly Arthur Bloch, a partner in N. Snellenberg & Co. (a department store in Philadelphia and Wilmington) and wealthy collector whose interests included material related to Benjamin Franklin (see a Parke-Bernet Galleries sale of 20 October 1954 in New York). [4] Documentation about the Rosenwald acquisition has thus far not been found in either Lessing J. Rosenwald collection records in the NGA Archives or his papers in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: copper alloy
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