Jockeys in colored silks race bay horses down a green track

Six jockeys in colored racing silks - among them green, black, white, yellow and pale blue caps - lean low over bay horses galloping toward the viewer down a green track. At the left, a dense crowd of spectators lines a white picket fence, with two women in bonnets in the foreground and a ring-topped post beyond them. Dark trees and rolling green hills fill the middle distance under a pale, cloud-streaked sky. Signed 'Manet' at the lower right.

Édouard Manet (1832–1883) was the painter around whom modern French art turned. Trained under Couture and steeped in Velázquez and Goya, he scandalised the Salon with Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe and Olympia (1863), then painted the bars, railways, gardens and flower pieces of contemporary Paris with a flat, direct touch that the Impressionists adopted, though he never exhibited with them. His paintings are held by the Musée d'Orsay, the National Gallery in London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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