Cheval faisant une 'descente de main'

Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917)

Fitzwilliam Museum

1919 - 1921

Horse with lowered head. Cast 1919 - 1921 but the original model was most probably of 1865 - 1881. This sculpture is from a collection of works which also includes studies of nudes, dancers, horses, after Donatello's 'David', and portrait studies of Therese Degas and Jules Perrot Debal.

• Medium: bronze
• Dimensions: 19cm
• ArtFunded in: 1978
• Bequeathed by Andrew S F Gow through The Art Fund

Provenance

Reid and Lefevre, London, 1950; Andrew Gow.

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