Before the Race, Edgar Degas, c. 1887–89
Edgar Degas, portrétEdgar DegasFrancie, 1834–1917

Before the Race

c. 1887–89 · Drawing

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Kde je teď „Before the Race“? Sbírka: Clevelandské muzeum umění, Cleveland. Momentálně není vystaveno. Ověřeno 9. listopadu 2026.

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O díle

Degas returned to the theme of horse and rider time and again throughout his career. Scholars believe that he executed the first version of this composition of four jockeys on horseback in a charcoal and pastel drawing. Several years later, he traced the composition, reversing its orientation to create the highly finished Cleveland pastel. The palette is intensified, the distance between the second and third jockeys is increased, and the foliage along the horizon has been added to suggest a lush spring day.

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Inventární číslo
1958.27

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V životě: Edgar Degas

Celý životopis
  1. 1886

    The eighth exhibition: pastel nudes, and the end of the group

    At the last Impressionist exhibition Degas showed a suite of pastel nudes, which drew more critical writing than anything else in his lifetime, mostly laudatory. The group broke up, partly through rancour over the inclusion of non-Impressionists such as Forain and Raffaëlli.

  2. after 1886

    Into the shadows: he stops exhibiting

    After 1886 Degas stopped exhibiting and sold his pictures at high prices through a narrow circle of agents. By the end of the decade he had in effect fulfilled his wish to be “famous and unknown”, withdrawing among close friends.

  3. late 1880s

    A passion for photography

    Degas photographed his friends, often by lamplight, as in the double portrait of Renoir and Mallarmé. Photographs of dancers and nudes served as references for his drawings and paintings.

  4. 1890s

    The Dreyfus Affair: a break with his Jewish friends

    The Dreyfus Affair intensified Degas's antisemitism: by the mid-1890s he had broken with all his Jewish friends and refused to use models he thought might be Jewish; the affair also set him at odds with Mary Cassatt. He remained among the Anti-Dreyfusards until his death.

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