Before the Race
Cleveland Museum of Art

Before the Race

Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917) · c. 1887–89

pastel with charcoal underdrawing on tracing paper mounted on cardboard
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

When creating the series to which this pastel belongs, Edgar Degas was inspired by the 19th-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge, who attempted to record motion in static images.

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