Riderless Racers at Rome
From the mid-15th century until 1882, spring carnival in Rome closed with a horse race. Fifteen to 20 riderless horses, originally imported from the Barbary Coast of North Africa, ran the length of the Via del Corso, a long, straight city street, in about 2½ minutes.Throughout...
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Géricault Estate Sale, Paris, November 2-3, 1824, no. 81; Sale, A. M. Couvreur, Paris; Sale, E. Secrétan, Paris, July 1, 1889, no. 35; H. O. Havemeyer, 1889 [mode of acquisition unknown]; H. S. Henry, New York, 1899, by purchase [Durand- Ruel, as agent]; H. S. Henry Sale, New York, January 25, 1907, no. 21; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1907, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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