At the Races in the Countryside

Aux courses en province

At the Races in the Countryside

Edgar Degas · 1869

Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Boston, United States

About this painting

Shown at the first Impressionist exhibition of 1874, it hides a tender family detail: Degas's friend Paul Valpinçon's infant son asleep in his wet nurse's arms.

Painting Details

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

37 × 56 cm (14.6 × 22 in)

Painted at

Paris, France

Current location

Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston

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