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Source 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.
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Document identity
localId
166878
label
Horse and Rider
core
obj
dtoType
drawing
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
166878
contentType
drawing
title
Horse and Rider
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.
date
c. 1890
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q79997715
creators
1759
genreSpecific
Drawing
imageCount
1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 29.5 x 24.3 cm (11 5/8 x 9 9/16 in.)
cul
France, 19th century
accession
2009.123
Source extras
tec
black chalk
tombstone
Horse and Rider, c. 1890. Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917). Black chalk; sheet: 29.5 x 24.3 cm (11 5/8 x 9 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin, 2009.123
supportMaterials
description
cream laid paper
collection
DR - French
inscriptions
inscription
inscribed in red ink, lower left: "Degas (estate stamp)"
creditline
Bequest of Muriel Butkin
updatedAt
2026-05-29 08:37:25.935000
sourceId
166878
dept
Drawings
coll
DR - French
med
black chalk
creatorTags
male
thumbnail_url
image_url
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
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f67a818dc5fd2c09