Head of the Fallen Jockey (study for "Scene from the Steeplechase: The Fallen Jockey")
Edgar Degas · c. 1866 · black chalk heightened with white on brown paper
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About this picture
Head of the Fallen Jockey (study for "Scene from the Steeplechase: The Fallen Jockey") is a public-domain drawing by Edgar Degas, dated c. 1866. Black chalk heightened with white on brown paper. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Head of the Fallen Jockey (study for "Scene from the Steeplechase: The Fallen Jockey")” (c. 1866) is cropped the way Degas liked: dancers, bathers, or a room seen as if glanced at, not arranged for a formal portrait.
About the artist
Edgar Degas (1834–1917) was a French artist of dancers, bathers, races, and ordinary rooms. He drew constantly and often cropped a scene as if it had been glanced at, rather than posed for a formal portrait.
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