The Jockey (c. 1885–1900): Art, History and Details

The Jockey (c. 1885–1900) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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.

Object facts

• Title: The Jockey
• Date: c. 1885–1900
• Creator attribution: Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: charcoal
• Dimensions: Sheet: 48.5 x 31.2 cm (19 1/8 x 12 5/16 in.)
• Collection: DR - French
• Department: Drawings
• Accession number: 1927.301

Collection credit

Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland

Further reading listed by the museum

• “Lists of Objects in the Exhibition.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 16, no. 9 (1929): 159–75.
• Francis, Henry S. "Drawings by Degas." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 44, no. 10 (December 1957): 212-17.
• DeGrazia, Diane and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000.

View the collection record

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