Dancers and horses - with or without jockeys - were favourite subjects of Degas. He was chiefly interested in poses and movements and usually drew from life. In this case, however, he used the experimental photographs published as ‘Animal Locomotion’ in 1887 by the American photographer Eadweard Muybridge (‘the father of the motion picture’), who made a series of successive time exposures to capture the way horses moved.
Specifications
| Title | Racehorse with Jockey |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Red chalk |
| Object type |
Drawing
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
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| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Height 283 mm Width 418 mm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Draughtsman:
Edgar Degas
|
| Accession number | F II 22 (PK) |
| Credits | Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940 |
| Department | Drawings & Prints |
| Acquisition date | 1940 |
| Creation date | in circa 1887 - 1888 |
| Collector | Collector / Franz Koenigs |
| Internal exhibitions |
Impressionisme: Een schone kijk (1992) De Collectie Twee - wissel IV, Prenten & Tekeningen (2009) Selectie Impressionisten van Manet tot Cézanne (2017) |
| External exhibitions |
Max Lieberman and France (2013) |
| Material | |
| Object | |
| Geographical origin | France > Western Europe > Europe |
All about the artist
Edgar Degas
Parijs 1834 - Parijs 1917
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas was admitted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Paris in 1855. He took a number of study trips to Italy and initially painted mainly...
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