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EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
Cheval de trait
stamped with signature, numbered and stamped with foundry mark 'Degas 30/J A.A. HÉBRARD CIRE PERDUE' (Lugt 658; on the top of the base)
bronze with dark brown patina
Length: 7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm.)
Original wax model executed in the late 1880s; this bronze version cast by 1926 in an edition numbered A to T, plus two casts reserved for the Degas heirs and the founder Hébrard marked HER.D and HER, respectively
Provenance
Mlle MacKenlay, Paris (wife of Adrien-Aurélien Hébrard .
Gonzalo Zaldumbide and Isabel Rosales Pareja, Quito (acquired from the above, May 1926).
Celia Zaldumbide Rosales, Quito (by descent from the above, 1961).
Bequest from the above to the present owner, 2014.
Literature
J. Rewald, Degas, Works in Sculpture, A Complete Catalogue, New York, 1944, p. 19, no. VII (another cast illustrated, p. 42).
J. Rewald and L. von Matt, Degas Sculpture, The Complete Works, New York, 1956, no. VII (another cast illustrated, p. 23).
J. Lassaigne and F. Minervino, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Degas, Paris, 1974, pp. 142-143, no. 45 (original wax model illustrated, p. 143).
C.W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas Princeton, 1976, pp. xiii, 22-23 and 99-100, no. 59 (original wax model illustrated, p. 100).
J. Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture, Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, pp. 56-57, no. VII (another cast illustrated, p. 56; original wax model illustrated, p. 57)
A. Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Paris, 1991, pp. 174-175, no. 45 (original wax model illustrated).
S. Campbell, "Degas, The Sculptures, A Catalogue Raisonné,"Apollo, vol. CXLII, no. 402, August 1995, pp. 25-26 (original wax model illustrated, p. 25, fig. 30).
J.S. Czestochowski and A. Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, pp. 180-181, no. 30 (another cast illustrated, p. 180; original wax model illustrated, p. 181).
S. Campbell, R. Kendall, D.S. Barbour and S.G. Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, 2009, vol. II, pp. 255-258 and 524-525, no. 41 (original wax model illustrated in color, pp. 255-257).
S. Glover Lindsay, D.S. Barbour and S.G. Sturman, Edgar Degas Sculpture, The Collections of the National Gallery of Art, Princeton, 2010, p. 369, no. VII (original wax model illustrated).