Le Jockey (The Jockey)
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Le Jockey (The Jockey), 1899, color lithograph on China paper, Museum Purchase: Ella M. Hirsch Fund, public domain, 41.10.3
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- Title
Le Jockey (The Jockey)
- Related Titles
original language: Le Jockey
translation: The Jockey
- Artist
- Related People
printer: H. Stern (active 19th century)
publisher: Pierefort (active 19th century)
- Date
1899
- Medium
color lithograph on China paper
- Edition
edition of 100
- Catalogue Raisonné
Delteil 279; Adhémar 365; Adriani 345; Wittrock 308
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
image: 20 5/16 in x 14 1/4 in; sheet: 20 5/16 in x 14 1/4 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
inscription: 206 h, graphite, bottom right
signature; date: TL [entwined & encircled] / 1899 [backwards], printed, bottom right
- Collection Area
European Art; Graphic Arts
- Category
Prints
- Object Type
planographic print
- Culture
French
- Credit Line
Museum Purchase: Ella M. Hirsch Fund
- Accession Number
41.10.3
- Copyright
public domain
- Terms
The motif of rider and horse dates back to the earliest examples of Western art. In metaphorical terms, the horse and rider can be read as a mediation of the physical body (horse) and intellect (rider) working in tandem; in other cases, the horse is the bearer of Death—as seen in the lithograph by Redon in this exhibition [82.93.61]—or an emblem of freedom and unbridled spirit.
For Toulouse-Lautrec, the horse symbolized a world of sporting and adventure that was closed to him due to his physical infirmities. In this stunning lithograph, created near the end of his short life, the artist positions the viewer just behind the jockey, racing beside the other horses in full gallop.
- Exhibitions
1998 Essay on Impressionism Portland Art Museum
1999 Early Modern Prints from the Permanent Collection Portland Art Museum
2003 Paris to Portland: Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masters in Portland Collections Portland Art Museum
2004 Daumier to Lautrec: French Prints and Drawings Portland Art Museum
2017 Kingdom Animalia: Animals in Print from Dürer to Picasso Portland Art Museum
