The Races (1865): Art, History and Details

The Races (1865) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883).

The work and its context

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

The Races is based on Manet's painting The Races at Longchamp. The lithograph, however, conveys the excitement of horse racing even more than the painting. Energy and movement are suggested by bold, quickly drawn lines and by rapid, curving smudges. The unrestrained, spontaneous use of the lithographic crayon foreshadows the expressiveness of 20th-century printmaking.

Object facts

• Title: The Races
• Date: 1865
• Creator attribution: Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Print
• Technique: lithograph
• Dimensions: Sheet: 52.2 x 66.5 cm (20 9/16 x 26 3/16 in.); Image: 40.3 x 51.7 cm (15 7/8 x 20 3/8 in.)
• Collection: PR - Lithograph
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1951.64

Collection credit

Dudley P. Allen Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Richards, Louise. "Prints of Edouard Manet." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 44, no. 8 (October 1957): 187-191.

View the collection record

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