Degas Horse Drawings. Drawings by Degas March 10 1967April 30 1967. This image is in the public domain.
Cheval faisant une descente de main 1865-1881. In fact for his earliest forays into sculpture in the 1860s he chose the horse as his subject a decade before étienne-Jules Mareys or Eadweard Muybridges famed photographs of horses in motion. Sold 5 March 1874 to Jean Baptiste Faure 1830-1914 Paris.
In 1919 two years following Edgar Degass death his heirs authorized the cast in bronze of seventy-three sculptures in wax plastiline and cork which were found in the masters studio.
From National Gallery of Art Washington DC Edgar Degas Horse ca. Horse Galloping on the Right Foot the Back Left Foot Only Touching the Ground 1998. Degas DrawingsHorse DrawingsAnimal DrawingsArt DrawingsEdgar DegasEquine ArtWildlife ArtHorse ArtPainting Drawing. A luxury sport imported from England horse racing was in vogue in 19th-century Paris.
