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Edgar Degas: Horses in a Meadow  wikidata:Q20188738 reasonator:Q20188738
Artist
Edgar Degas  (1834–1917)  wikidata:Q46373 s:fr:Auteur:Edgar Degas q:en:Edgar Degas
 
Edgar Degas
Alternative names
Edgar Germain Hilaire Degas
Description French painter, sculptor, poet, printmaker, photographer and drawer
Date of birth/death 19 July 1834 Edit this at Wikidata 27 September 1917 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paris Paris
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artist QS:P170,Q46373
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Title
Horses in a Meadow
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1871
date QS:P571,+1871-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 31.8 cm (12.5 in); width: 40 cm (15.7 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,31.8U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,40U174728
institution QS:P195,Q214867
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Object history
  • Purchased 1872 from the artist by (Durand-Ruel, Paris);
  • sold 1874 to Jean Baptiste Faure [1830-1914], Paris;
  • returned to Degas;
  • gift to James Tissot [1836-1902], Paris;
  • purchased 1890 by (Durand-Ruel, Paris);
  • (Durand-Ruel New York) from 1925;
  • [1] Mr. and Mrs. Jean D'Alayer, of the Durand-Ruel family, 1951 to 1960.
  • [2] (Janet Traeger Salz, Inc., New York), by 1991;
  • (sale, Sotheby's, London, 30 June 1992, no. 4, bought in);
  • sold 1995 to NGA.
[1] Early provenance per 1992 Sotheby's sale catalogue. [2] Lenders to a Degas exhibition at the Berner Kunstmuseum in 1951, and according to a label on the painting's stretcher, the lenders to a 1960 exhibition at Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris.
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E. Degas 71
References
Source/Photographer National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., online collection

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