The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 23, 2024
Horse and Rider
c. 1890
Location: not on view
Description
Degas’s drawing Gentleman Rider alludes to the steeplechase, a fashionable race in which the riders were not professional jockeys but, instead, “gentlemen.” Here, Degas demonstrated his unceasing interest in the horse’s anatomy in motion, playfully revising the position of the animal’s hind legs, as he would a dancer’s. The top-hatted rider remains a ghostly shadow—it is clearly the horse rather than its rider who captured the artist’s imagination.- Estate of Muriel Butkin.
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- {{cite web|title=Horse and Rider|url=false|author=Edgar Degas|year=c. 1890|access-date=23 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2009.123