Promenade by the Sea

The same social form, on a shore

A promenade is riding done to be seen, at a walk, in a place where being seen is the point. The record puts this one by the sea and adds seascape and nautical headings to Animal Art > Horse. The setting changes the audience but not the function: the animal is carrying a person at a social pace, with nothing to pull, chase or beat.

What the record holds

The date of creation is 1860, the earliest date of creation among the 31 works by this painter assembled here, and the location line reads Private Collection. The dimensions are not recorded. Impressionism is the style term on the record and French the nationality; the measured colour family of the image is yellow.

A word that recurs

4 titles in this catalogue use the word promenade, which is a small sign of how much of the collection sits outside work and sport. The mounted portrait and the racing picture take the attention. The ordinary business of riding somewhere slowly, in company, accounts for a good many of the rest.