The Jockey
Edgar Degas
1885–1900
- Medium
- charcoal
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 48.5 x 31.2 cm (19 1/8 x 12 5/16 in.)
- Genre
- Drawings
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
France, 19th century
About
A study made for a larger racetrack composition rendered in pastel, Degas’s Jockey shows the attention that the artist lavished on perfecting the positions of the horse’s legs, hoofs, jaw straining against the bit, and the swish of the tail.
