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accession number:	1967.234
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The Jockey, 1899. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901). Color lithograph; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Prasse Collection 1967.234

title:				The Jockey
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creation date:			1899
creation date earliest:		1899
creation date latest:		1899
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creditline:			Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Prasse Collection
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culture:	France, late 19th Century
technique:	color lithograph
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Lithograph
type:		Print
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catalogue raisonne: Wittrock Vol.II.308 ; Delteil 279

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CREATORS

* Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901)  - artist

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Prasse Collection
	opening date:   1968-06-11T04:00:00
	<i>Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Prasse Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 11-October 21, 1968).

	title:		Year in Review: 1968
	opening date:   1969-01-29T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1968</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 29-March 9, 1969).

	title:		Leona E. Prasse, Connoisseur and Curator
	opening date:   1985-05-28T04:00:00
	<i>Leona E. Prasse, Connoisseur and Curator</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 28-August 25, 1985).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Cleveland, Ohio:  The Cleveland Museum of Art; May 13 - July 13, 2003.  " Object in Focus:  Degas' Jockeys "

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PROVENANCE

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wall description: 
Motivated by the popularity of the races, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec executed this lithograph both in color, seen here, and in black and white. He intended to publish the color version in a portfolio of horse-racing subjects, but the project never came to fruition and <em>Jockey</em> was published alone. The artist's admiration for Edgar Degas's horse-racing pictures is clear in <em>Jockey</em>, and he shared Degas's appreciation of Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints. Particular elements of the lithograph reveal the influence of the Japanese woodcut: the overall flatness; the daring cropping—particularly of the background horse whose head and hindquarters have been omitted; the pale green hue of the grass and the blue-violet sky; and the dramatic, rushing perspective of the horses galloping into the distance. However, the younger artist incorporated the Japanese aesthetic into his own visual language in an entirely original way. Unlike Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec ignored Eadweard Muybridge's photographs and depicted his horse and rider in the physically impossible "flying-gallop" position.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 179
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n203

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 222
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n242

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