Hand-painted in oil
About this Artwork
The crowd, not the course
The record files this under portraiture, both male and female, alongside Animal Art > Horse. In a racing subject that combination points away from the running and towards the people who came to watch, an event with two audiences: the animals working, and the crowd assembled to see them do it.
What the record holds
The date of creation is 1899 and the location is the Musee Toulouse-Lautrec, in Albi. The dimensions are not recorded. Post-Impressionism is the recorded style, French the recorded nationality, and the measured colour family of the image is turquoise, the rarest family in this catalogue and carried by 3 of the 636 records.
A title that repeats
At the Races is one of the titles this catalogue holds more than once, under different painters and different years. It is a generic label rather than a description, which is why the headings do more work here than the name does. They say a horse is present and that people are the other subject; the title, on its own, says almost nothing.
Sources
3 references- Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de — Getty ULAN
French painter, printmaker, and draftsman, 1864-1901
- Toulouse-Lautrec - At the Races, 1899 — Wikimedia Commons
High-resolution image of the work, hosted on Wikimedia Commons.
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec — Wikipedia
Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Montfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901), known as Toulouse-Lautrec (French: [tuluz lotʁɛk]), was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator. His immersion in t
