Fallen Jockey (study for "Scene from the Steeplechase: The Fallen Jockey")
Edgar Degas · c. 1866 · black chalk and pastel on brown wove paper
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About this picture
Fallen Jockey (study for "Scene from the Steeplechase: The Fallen Jockey") is a public-domain drawing by Edgar Degas, dated c. 1866. Black chalk and pastel on brown wove paper. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“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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