Hand-painted in oil
About this Artwork
A course on open ground
The title names a race track and a coastal town, and the record files the work under landscape, rural and field headings. Read together those two things describe a provincial meeting rather than a metropolitan one: ground marked out for racing rather than a built enclosure. The animal's job is the same competitive job it does at any fixture; what changes is the apparatus around it, and in this register the presence or absence of an urban heading is the most reliable signal the catalogue gives about which kind of course is meant.
What the record holds
The catalogue gives 1900 as the date of creation and a private collection as the location. No dimensions are recorded. Two style terms are attached, Neo-Impressionism and Pointillism, which is unusual in this register — most entries carry one. The nationality attached to the painter is Belgian, the categories add an Eco Nature heading to Animal Art > Horse, and the measured colour family of the image is pink.
A title that invites a misreading
This catalogue also holds a racing subject of 1872 whose title names the Bois de Boulogne. The two place-names look alike at a glance and the works are unrelated records with different dates, painters and collections. It is a good argument for reading the whole record line rather than the title alone.
Sources
2 references- Rysselberghe, Théo van — Getty ULAN
Belgian painter, 1862-1926
- Théo van Rysselberghe — Wikipedia
Théophile "Théo" van Rysselberghe (; French: [teofil teɔ vɑ̃ ʁisɛlbɛʁɡ]; 23 November 1862 – 13 December 1926) was a Belgian Neo-Impressionist painter who played a pivotal role in the European art scene at the turn of the twentieth century.
