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EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)

Lot 53
18.05.2026 00:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 53 | EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
Estimate value
$ 1 500 000 – 2 500 000
EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
Enfants et poneys dans un parc
stamped with signature 'Degas' (Lugt 658; lower right)
oil on canvas
39 7/8 x 34 7/8 in. (101.1 x 88.8 cm.)
Painted circa 1867




Provenance

Estate of the artist; First sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 6-8 May 1918, lot 95.
Ambroise Vollard, Paris (acquired at the above sale).
Jacques Seligmann, Paris; sale, American Art Association, New York, 27 January 1921, lot 64.
Helen Hay and William Payne Whitney, New York (acquired at the above sale).
Joan Whitney Payson, New York (gift from the above, 5 February 1921).
By descent from the above to the late owner.



Literature

P.A. Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre, Paris, 1946, vol. II, p. 86, no. 171 (illustrated, p. 87; with inverted dimensions).
P. Cabanne, Edgar Degas, Paris, 1957, p. 107, no. 31 (illustrated, pl. 31).
R. Davison, "News and Views from New York" in Apollo, vol. LXVI, no. 391, September 1957, p. 60 (illustrated; titled Girls on Ponies).
F. Russoli and F. Minervino, L'opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. 176 (illustrated).
I. Dunlop, Degas, London, 1979, p. 91, no. 83 (illustrated).
R. Kendall, Degas Landscapes, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1993, p. 74.
M. Oberthür, Edgar Degas en Normandie: Le peintre du cheval et des courses, Montreuil, 2018, pp. 15, 17 and 197 (illustrated in color, p. 15, fig. 7).



Exhibited

New York, Marie Harriman Gallery, Constable and the Landscape, November 1937, no. 14.
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Impressionist and Modern Paintings from Private Collections: Summer Loan Exhibition, July-September 1957.
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Collects: Paintings, Watercolors and Sculptures from Private Collections, July-September 1968, p. 10, no. 53.
Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art and Fukuoka Art Museum, Degas, September 1976-January 1977, no. 9 (illustrated in color).
Wellesley College Museum, One Century: Wellesley Families Collect, April-May 1978, no. 2 (illustrated).
Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art and Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art, From Goya to Wyeth: The Joan Whitney Payson Collection, September-December 1980, no. 18 (illustrated in color).
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Degas at the Races, April-July 1998, pp. 70-71 and 247, no. 30 (illustrated in color, p. 70).
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