At the Races the Start
Edgar Degas
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- At the Races: The Start
Original Language Title: Aux Courses, Le Départ
Alternate Title: At the Races, "They're Off" / Jockeys at Epsom
Edgar Degas
Date: 1861 - 1862
Style: Impressionism
Genre: genre painting
Media: oil, canvas
33 x 47 cm (13 x 18 1/2 in.)
Location: Fogg Museum (Harvard Art Museums), Cambridge, MA, US
Degas often depicted horse racing, producing forty-five oil paintings featuring the subject. This early work, with four jockeys approaching the start of a race, reveals some of the initial challenges that Degas faced in this genre. In order to distinguish the four horses from each other in the foreground, and in an attempt to avoid a tangle of legs, he painted them in different shades of brown. Their anatomical features and poses exemplify Degas’s early reliance on both British prints and the work of the romantic painter Géricault for models of horses. The horse at the far left with its leg raised high, for instance, bears a close resemblance to a position from a dressage exercise rather than preparation for a race.
Degas’s depiction of horses in motion changed drastically over his career, and particularly after the 1887 publication of Eadweard Muybridge’s stop-action photographs showing the frame-by-frame movement of a galloping horse.
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- The Dance Class
- Portrait of the Painter Henri Michel Levy
- The Rehearsal
- The Rape
- Edmond and Therese Morbilli
- Before the Race2
- Ballet Rehearsal
- At the Milliner s
- Singer with a glove (Café Singer)
- Head of a Young Woman
- At the Races Before the Start
- Four Dancers
- At the Milliners 2
- The Ballet Class
- The Star
- Woman Ironing 1884
- At the Races in the Countryside (A Carriage at the Races)
- Portrait after a Costume Ball Portrait of Madame DietzMonnin
- Beach Scene
- A Roman Beggar Woman
- A Carriage at the Races
- Degas in a Green Jacket
- Henri De Gas and His Neice Lucie Degas
- Dancer At The Photographers
- Ballerina and Lady with a Fan
- Self Portrait
- At the Races the Start
- At the Milliners
- Achille De Gas in the Uniform of a Cadet
- The Millinery Shop
- Interior aka The Rape
- In a Café (Glass of Absinthe or The Absinthe Drinker)
- Diego Martelli
- Cotton exchange
- Ballet at the Paris Opera
- Edmond Duranty
- The Star (Ballet or Dancer on Stage)
- Hortense Valpin
- The Dancing Class
- Dancers in Pink
- The Bellelli Family (Family Portrait)
- At the Milliners 3
- At the Races
- Cafe concert
- Portrait of Mary Cassatt
- The Parade (Race Horses in front of the Tribunes)
- Woman ironing
- Ballet Class
- Emma Dobigny
- CAFÉ CONCERT AT LES AMBASSADEURS
- The Duke and Duchess Morbilli
- The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage
- Dancer at the Barre circa 1880
- At the Mirror
- After the Bath
- Study of Gentile bellini 1854
- After the Bath
- Before the Rehearsal 1880
- After The Bath
- The Tub
- After The Bath 1884
- Woman Combing Her Hair
- At the Ballet
- The Dance Examination
- Woman At Her Toilet
- After the Bath Woman Drying Herself
- Seated Dancer Adjusting Her Shoes
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