Before the Race

Avant la course

Before the Race

Edgar Degas · 1882

Walters Art Museum

Baltimore, United States

About this painting

Degas painted several near-identical versions of this scene; he studied Eadweard Muybridge's stop-motion photographs to nail the horses' gaits.

Painting Details

Medium

Oil on panel

Dimensions

26 × 35 cm (10.2 × 13.8 in)

Painted at

Paris, France

Current location

Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

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