Wednesday, December 4, 2013

The Epsom Derby (1821)

Théodore Géricault: The Epsom Derby

Another dramatic painting by Géricault, who seems to specialize in those.

1 comment:

  1. "He had three passions: women, horses and painting. The third one made him famous".

    Curiosity: the legs of the horses are "impossible"; only in 1878 Eadweard Muybridge demonstrated with his photographic studies the sequence of movements of a running horse!

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