Horse and Rider
c. 1890
- Medium
- black chalk
- Dimensions
- 29.5 × 24.3 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-210444
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.
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin, 2009.123
Registry history
- c. 1890 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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