Little more of the horse than the lines of its neck can be seen in this early drawing. Degas focused on the bearing of the ‘gentleman rider’. He used coloured paper so that he could introduce highlights with white chalk and contrast the head with the top hat against the background. At the top there is a note ‘pas mal plus penché en barrière’ (not bad, leaning back more) as a reminder to himself.
Specifications
| Title | Man on Horseback |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Pencil, heightened with white bodycolour on brown paper |
| Object type |
Drawing
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
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| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Width 235 mm Height 270 mm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Draughtsman:
Edgar Degas
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| Accession number | MB 1976/T 18 (PK) |
| Credits | From the estate of Vitale Bloch, 1976 |
| Department | Drawings & Prints |
| Acquisition date | 1976 |
| Creation date | in 1863 - 1865 |
| Internal exhibitions |
Impressionisme: Een schone kijk (1992) De Collectie Twee - wissel IV, Prenten & Tekeningen (2009) |
| Material | |
| Object | |
| Geographical origin | France > Western Europe > Europe |
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Edgar Degas
Parijs 1834 - Parijs 1917
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas was admitted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Paris in 1855. He took a number of study trips to Italy and initially painted mainly...
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