Galloping Horse
- Date
- c.1889–90
- Material
- Bronze
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Collection
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Current Location
- On View, Gallery 218
- Dimensions
- 12 1/4 x 18 1/4 x 8 in. (31.1 x 46.4 x 20.3 cm)
- Credit Line
- Museum Purchase
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 187:1946
NOTES
Edgar Degas produced about fifteen sculptures of horses in which he aimed to capture the complexity of horses in motion. A regular visitor to the racetrack, he focused on elegant thoroughbreds rather than workhorses. This sculpture shows a running horse with head intently forward, tail raised, and front legs elevated; Degas succeeds in rendering the energy and tense musculature of the animal. Degas may have been influenced by Eadweard Muybridge’s sequential photographic studies of running horses, published in 1879.
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