Horse with Jockey; Horse Galloping, Turning Head to the Right, Feet Not Touching the Ground
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
Modeled mid–1870s, cast before 1951
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
H.: 28.6 cm (11 1/4 in.)
Classification
sculpture
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
191567
About the Artist
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas · 1834–1917
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas, born on July 19, 1834, in Paris to a prosperous banking family, was the eldest of five children. His mother, Célestine Musson, a Creole from New Orleans whose father Germain Musson had roots in Haiti, died when Degas was thirteen, leaving his father Augustin and unmarried uncles to guide him. Educated at the elite Lycée Louis-le-Grand, where he earned a baccalauréat in...