EDGAR DEGAS charcoal drawing over pencil on paper

EDGAR DEGAS

LA CHASSE c.1866

Dimensions: 8 7/8” x 14”
Framed size: 24 1/2" x 28 1/2"

charcoal over pencil on paper

AUTHENTICITY
Dr. Theodore Reff has confirmed the authenticity of this drawing

PROVENANCE
This drawing was acquired by the previous owner from B.C. Holland, Inc., Chicago.
It was then indirectly acquired by E-FINEART.COM from the previous owner.

Degas painted only one hunting scene, Le depart pour la chasse, which he worked on circa 1866 and again ci rca 1873 (Lemoisne, no. 119; private collection). Jean Sutherland Boggs has pointed out that even if Degas had not witnessed an actual fox hunt, he would have been familiar with the subject in the work of French artists such as Le Dreux, and pictures by English artists whom he admired. The fact that the gentlemen are wearing top hats in Degas' hunting scene, and in the present drawing as well, indicates that Degas probably had an English hunt in mind, and that he may have intended the painting for the London market (in Degas and the Races, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1998, pp. 75-76).

Where Degas' painting shows the riders setting out on the hunt, this study shows the actual chase in progress. The thrown rider, seen crouching behind the cover of a stone wall as other horsemen jump over him, recalls the fallen jockey in Scene de steeplechase (Au courses, le jockey blesse), which Degas painted in 1866 and later re-worked in 1880-1881 (Lemoisne, no. 140).




	EDGAR DEGAS LA CHASSE c.1866 Dimensions: 8 7/8” x 14” Framed size: 24 1/2" x 28 1/2" charcoal over pencil on paper AUTHENTICITY Dr. Theodore Reff has confirmed the authenticity of this drawing PROVENANCE This drawing was acquired by the previous owner from B.C. Holland, Inc., Chicago. It was then indirectly acquired by E-FINEART.COM from the previous owner. Degas painted only one hunting scene, Le depart pour la chasse, which he worked on circa 1866 and again ci rca 1873 (Lemoisne, no. 119; private collection). Jean Sutherland Boggs has pointed out that even if Degas had not witnessed an actual fox hunt, he would have been familiar with the subject in the work of French artists such as Le Dreux, and pictures by English artists whom he admired. The fact that the gentlemen are wearing top hats in Degas' hunting scene, and in the present drawing as well, indicates that Degas probably had an English hunt in mind, and that he may have intended the painting for the London market (in Degas and the Races, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1998, pp. 75-76). Where Degas' painting shows the riders setting out on the hunt, this study shows the actual chase in progress. The thrown rider, seen crouching behind the cover of a stone wall as other horsemen jump over him, recalls the fallen jockey in Scene de steeplechase (Au courses, le jockey blesse), which Degas painted in 1866 and later re-worked in 1880-1881 (Lemoisne, no. 140). $30,000
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