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Atelier Degas

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Edgar Degas, Studies of Feet [verso], 1855, graphite on laid paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1995.47.32.b

Studies of Feet [verso]

Edgar Degas · 1855 · graphite on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1995.47.32.b

Edgar Degas, Study of a Jockey, c. 1884, charcoal on brown paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1999.79.12

Study of a Jockey

Edgar Degas · c. 1884 · charcoal on brown paper ·  Accession ID  1999.79.12

Two groups of people face off in front of a hilly landscape in this loosely painted, vertical scene. On our left, a pale young man in a white tunic looks with eyes wide and lips parted at a group of three people on our right. The young man's right hand, on our left, is raised to stroke the head of a reddish-brown horse at his right shoulder. He stands with feet planted wide, knees bent, and he curls his left hand into a fist. Behind him, a man holds up a fluttering, light blue cape. A mottled red wall forms a backdrop to this scene on our left. The tight group gathered under a tree on our right stares back at the young man. The trio is made up of a balding, older man, a light-skinned boy also wearing a white tunic, and, closest to us, a brown-skinned woman wearing a marigold-orange shirt and a maroon-red skirt. Behind this group, a pair of pale raised arms suggests a fourth person, but the head is missing or has been painted over. The ground under the people is saffron orange. In the center of the picture, beyond the people, a group of horses stands near a green bank by a river, its surface reflecting white. The far bank is lined with white buildings. Tan and olive-green slopes rise from the opposite riverbank under a pale blue sky with cream-white clouds sweeping along the top edge of the composition. The artist signed his name in red paint in the lower right corner: “Degas.”
Edgar Degas, Alexander and Bucephalus, 1861/1862, oil on canvas, Bequest of Lore Heinemann in memory of her husband, Dr. Rudolf J. Heinemann, 1997.57.1

Alexander and Bucephalus

Edgar Degas · 1861/1862 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1997.57.1

Edgar Degas, Jockey, c. 1898, washed pastel and transferred pastel, Gift of Mrs. Jane C. Carey as an addition to the Addie Burr Clark Memorial Collection, 1959.12.10

Jockey

Edgar Degas · c. 1898 · washed pastel and transferred pastel ·  Accession ID  1959.12.10

Edgar Degas, Horse and Rider, c. 1878, oiled black chalk on cream laid paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1999.79.8

Horse and Rider

Edgar Degas · c. 1878 · oiled black chalk on cream laid paper ·  Accession ID  1999.79.8

Edgar Degas, Study of a Jockey (M. de Broutelles), c. 1884, black crayon on cream paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1999.79.13

Study of a Jockey (M. de Broutelles)

Edgar Degas · c. 1884 · black crayon on cream paper ·  Accession ID  1999.79.13

A band of several galloping horses and riders move across the center of this vertical painting. The color palette is dominated by blended earthy brown, green, and pale pink. The horses, which have reddish-brown coats and tails, nearly span the width of the painting. They move to our left with their legs fully extended. Underneath the horses’ flying legs lies the body of a man. The felled rider faces upward, his eyes closed and his legs splayed. He has a light brown beard, mustache, and hair, and pale tan skin. He wears brown riding boots with black tops, white breeches, and a pink jersey with black sleeves. His riding helmet, with a matching pink cover, lies behind his head on the ground. At least three additional horses are in the band, and the two foremost have empty saddles. The two horses beyond them, farther into the picture, have male riders, who wear riding outfits and helmets in colors of smudged and blended orange, lavender purple, and green. They also have brown mustaches and beards. The band races through a field painted with a muddy green interspersed with strokes of orange and white. The horizon line is high, just above the level of the horses’ backs, about four-fifths of the way up the painting. Blue sky peeks out amid a mixture of pale pink and yellow clouds above. There are trees in the background indicated by a few strokes and dashes of paint. The painting style is loose and brushy throughout, without sharp detail or lines, except for the sketched-in black lines that delineate the bodies and tack of the horses.
Edgar Degas, Scene from the Steeplechase: The Fallen Jockey, 1866, reworked 1880-1881 and c. 1897, oil on canvas, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1999.79.10

Scene from the Steeplechase: The Fallen Jockey

Edgar Degas · 1866, reworked 1880-1881 and c. 1897 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1999.79.10

Edgar Degas, René de Gas [recto], 1855, graphite on laid paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1995.47.32.a

René de Gas [recto]

Edgar Degas · 1855 · graphite on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1995.47.32.a

Edgar Degas, Racehorses (study for "Scene from the Steeplechase: The Fallen Jockey"), c. 1881, charcoal on light brown paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1999.79.9

Racehorses (study for "Scene from the Steeplechase: The Fallen Jockey")

Edgar Degas · c. 1881 · charcoal on light brown paper ·  Accession ID  1999.79.9

Edgar Degas, Fallen Jockey (study for "Scene from the Steeplechase: The Fallen Jockey"), c. 1866, graphite on blue paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1999.79.6

Fallen Jockey (study for "Scene from the Steeplechase: The Fallen Jockey")

Edgar Degas · c. 1866 · graphite on blue paper ·  Accession ID  1999.79.6