The Parade (Racehorses in Front of the Stands)

The parade, which is the animal being shown rather than run

Before a race the runners are walked in front of the stands so that the public can look at them. That is a distinct job from racing, and it is arguably the more commercial of the two: the parade is where an animal's value is displayed to the people who will bet on it. Pictures of this moment belong with the turf group in this register but they are not action pictures. Nothing is being contested. The horses are on show, and the stands are in the frame because the showing is the point.

What the record holds

The date of creation is 1868 and the location is the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, one of fourteen works in this register recorded there. No dimensions are given. Realism is the recorded style and French the nationality attached to the painter. Alongside Animal Art > Horse the record carries landscape and city headings, consistent with a built course rather than open country, and the measured colour family of the image is yellow.

Two entries that are easy to confuse

This register also holds a work of 1872, in the same collection, whose title likewise places racehorses before the stands. They are separate records with separate dates. Where a catalogue carries near-identical titles, the safest handle is the Master ID, and that is what this register indexes on.