Hand-painted in oil
About this Artwork
The trade named, twice over
The title names the riders rather than the race, which is the same choice another painter made for another picture in this catalogue. The subject that follows from it is work: men employed to ride other people's animals, at a weight, for a fee. Nothing in the title fixes a course, a race or a result, and nothing in the tags adds one.
What the record holds
The catalogue dates the work to 1882, and the location line reads Private Collection. No dimensions are given: 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 brown. The record files the work under portraiture, male portraiture, a rural heading and Animal Art > Horse.
Where it sits in this painter's records
20 works by this painter are assembled here, dated between 1879 and 1901, and this is the only one whose title names a jockey. The others identify an animal, a place, a person or an activity instead. That is a count over these records and says nothing about anything the catalogue does not hold.
Sources
4 references- Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de — Getty ULAN
French painter, printmaker, and draftsman, 1864-1901
- 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
- The Jockeys — Wikidata
description: painting by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec; inception: 1882; dimensions: 64.5 × 45 cm; collection: Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
- museothyssen.org — record for "The Jockeys"
Primary source record for this work (museothyssen.org).
