Jockeys

The professional, not the animal

The title names the riders. In this catalogue that is a minority position: 10 records put a jockey in the title against 25 that put a race, a course or a derby there. Naming the rider shifts the subject from the contest to the trade, a paid professional at work in an occupation defined by weight, licence and employment rather than by ownership.

What the record holds

The date of creation is 1881 and the location is the Yale University Art Gallery (Yale University), in New Haven, one of 16 records here held under a Yale line. The dimensions are 26.3 x 39.8 cm. Impressionism is the recorded style, French the recorded nationality, and the measured colour family of the image is ochre. The work is filed under group portraiture and Animal Art > Horse together with rural and vintage headings.

Two records, one title

Another entry in this catalogue carries the same one-word title under a different painter and a different year. Titles repeat, which is why every record here is addressed by its own identifier rather than by name, and why nothing on this page should be read as applying to the other one.