Six men on horseback and wearing jockeys’ uniforms line up on a grassy field in front of us in this loosely painted horizontal scene. The jockeys and horses’ features are especially freely painted so much of the detail is indistinct. The horses are all chestnut brown except for two at the middle, which are dark brown. One horse, second from our right, rears up on its hind legs, and one to our left nuzzles its neighbor. The riders all wear brimmed caps or helmets, white pants, and knee-high black boots. Their caps and high-necked shirts are painted in shades of goldenrod yellow, aquamarine…
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The Riders

Edgar Degas (French, 1834 - 1917)

c. 1885

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 73.03 × 90.81 cm (28 3/4 × 35 3/4 in.) ; framed: 85.09 × 104.14 × 5.08 cm (33 1/2 × 41 × 2 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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