At the Races

c. 1860–62

Medium	graphite and black chalk with stumping on beige-pink paper, pieced
Dimensions	sheet: 13 11/16 x 18 7/8 in. (34.7 x 48 cm); frame: 22 x 28 in. (55.9 x 71.1 cm)
Object Number	1955.1401
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, At the Races, c. 1860–62, graphite and black chalk with stumping on beige-pink paper, pieced. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1401

Select Bibliography

Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Ten: Degas. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1959. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty: A Selection of Nineteenth Century French Drawings. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1965. New York: Wildenstein & Co.. Degas's Racing World, March 21-April 27, 1968. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Edgar Degas (1834-1917). Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. Boston (MA): Museum of Fine Arts. Edgar Degas, The Reluctant Impressionist. June 20-Sept. 1, 1974. Cat. by Barbara S. Shapiro. Richmond (VA) Museum of Fine Arts.. Degas. May 23-July 9, 1978. London: Art Council of Great Britain.. The Private Degas. Whitworth Gallery, University of Manchester, Jan. 17-Feb. 28, 1987; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, March 14-May 3, 1987. Cat. by Richard Thomson. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.. Never Say Die. May 17-Sept. 14, 1980. Essay by David S. Brooke for brochure, "Three Cheers for the Twenty-Fifth." Fernandez, Rafael, and Alexandra R. Murphy. Degas in the Clark Collection. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1987. Shapiro, Barbara Stern, et al. Pleasures of Paris: Daumier to Picasso. Exhibition catalogue. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1991. Dayton (Ohio) Art Institute.. Edgar Degas: The Many Dimensions of a Master French Impressionist. Aug. 13-Oct. 9, 1994.Center for Fine Arts, Miami, April 2-May 15, 1994; Mississippi Museum of Arts, Jackson, May 30-July 31, 1994. Washington (DC): National Gallery of Art. Degas at the Races. (Cat. by Jean Boggs).. April 12-July 12, 1998.. R. F. C.. "Le opere di Degas alla collezione Clark.". Emporium, 132: 787.. (July 1960).. Daulte, François. "Des Renoir et des chevaux." Connaissance des Arts 103 (September 1960): 26–38. Eduard Hüttinger.. Degas.. New York: Crown Publisher.. 1988.. Colin B. Bailey, Joseph J. Rishel, and Mark Rosenthal.. Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection (exh.cat.).. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art.. 1989.. Lemoisne, Paul-André. Degas et son oeuvre. Les Artistes et leurs oeuvres, études et documents. Paris: P. Brame et C. M. de Hauke, 1946.

Provenance

The artist (d. 1917, fourth studio sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 2–4 July 1919 [L. 658], no. 253, ill., as Aux courses: le rassemblement, sold to Knoedler, Paris, as agent for Clark); Robert Sterling Clark (1919–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.