1899
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
The Jockey is a 1899 by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
A jockey leans forward in the saddle, his face sharp against the blur of a galloping horse. The colors are bold—red cap, green jacket, white pants—like a poster you’d see on a Paris street. Toulouse-Lautrec made this as a print, not a painting. He loved horse races but never finished the book of racing scenes he planned. The way the rider tilts, almost flying off the page, shows how much he admired Edgar Degas’s horse pictures. Look up *impasto*—the thick, textured brushwork Degas used in his own racing scenes.
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 Jockey was published alone. The artist's admiration for Edgar Degas's horse-racing pictures is clear in Jockey , 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…
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec set this print at an identifiable race track, at Longchamps in Paris's Bois de Boulougne.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Montfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901), known as Toulouse-Lautrec (French: ), was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator.
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