Art, literature & history
Two Sportsmen Mounting Their Horses
1856
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on China paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 8.3 × 7.5 cm (3 1/4 × 2 15/16 in.) sheet: 9.8 × 8.1 cm (3 7/8 × 3 3/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2021.124.3
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Edgar Degas. Two Sportsmen Mounting Their Horses. Image credit: Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Proportional resize and JPEG compression; full source frame retained.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Two Sportsmen Mounting Their Horses — Edgar Degas. 1856.
Medium: etching on China paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 8.3 × 7.5 cm (3 1/4 × 2 15/16 in.) sheet: 9.8 × 8.1 cm (3 7/8 × 3 3/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2021.124.3. Purchased for the Virginia and Ira Jackson Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.