Six jockeys wearing colorful silks sit astride brown and black horses on a grassy field in this horizontal painting. Two more riders wearing top hats sit a bit farther back from the group, and two horses run on a grass track behind that. Five of the jockeys are together in the lower left quadrant. From left to right, they wear a black jersey with white sleeves, pink with black sleeves, black with sky-blue sleeves, emerald green, and canary yellow. The sixth jockey approaches from the right and wears white. The horizon comes about a third of the way up the composition, and the lawn is painted…
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The Races

Edgar Degas (French, 1834 - 1917)

1871-1872

Medium
oil on wood
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 26.6 x 35.1 cm (10 1/2 x 13 13/16 in.) ; framed: 42.2 x 49.9 cm (16 5/8 x 19 5/8 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Widener Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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