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| Keywords: Edgar Degas - Before the Race - Walters 37850.jpg Throughout the latter part of his career Degas was obsessed with the restless beauty of the thoroughbred racehorse Horse racing which drew together throngs of people from many levels of society was a singularly appropriate subject for representing modern life Degas typically painted several versions of a composition making slight variations in each Here riders and horses are shown in quiet and agitated movement By the 1880s Degas was making good use of recently published stop-action photographs which captured movement too fleeting to be perceived by the naked eye and which increased the artist's understanding of the horse in motion between 1882 1884 oil on panel cm 26 4 34 9 ; size cm 57 47 65 88 10 16 accession number 37 850 21331 Durand-Ruel Cyrus J Lawrence New York Cyrus J Lawrence Sale New York January 21 1910 no 62 Henry Walters Baltimore January 21 1910 by purchase Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1910 Degas signature lower right ~ From Ingres to Gauguin French Nineteenth Century Paintings Owned in Maryland Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore 1951 Before Monet Landscape Painting in France and Impressionist Masters Highlights from The Walters Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1998 A Day at the Races Degas Manet and Images of the Horse National Gallery of Art Washington 1998 Highlights from the Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1998-2001 Vive la France French Treasures from the Middle Ages to Monet The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1999-2000 Triumph of French Painting Masterpieces from Ingres to Matisse Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore; Philbrook Museum of Art Tulsa; Norton Museum of Art West Palm Beach; Royal Academy of Arts London; Albright-Knox Art Gallery Buffalo; Dayton Art Institute Dayton 2000-2002 A Magnificent Age Masterpieces from the Walters Art Museum Baltimore The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Kansas City; Mint Museum of Art Charlotte; The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2002-2004 Déjà Vu Revealing Repetition in French Masterpieces The Walters Art Museum Baltimore; Phoenix Art Museum Phoenix 2007-2008 19th Century Masterpieces from the Walters Art Museum Santa Barbara Museum of Art Santa Barbara; Jack S Blanton Museum of Art Austin 2010-2011 place of origin Paris France PD-old-auto 1917 Paintings of horse racing by Edgar Degas French paintings in the Walters Art Museum Off the Wall Baltimore 1880s paintings from France Vive la France French Treasures from the Middle Ages to Monet | ||||
