Conformation and the Parade Ring · At the Rail
Le Champ de courses, jockeys amateurs près d'une voiture
Edgar Degas, oil on canvas, 1876-1887 · oil on canvas
What it is
Two amateur jockeys walk their horses past a parked carriage at the edge of the course, nothing about to start.
Why it matters
Degas found as much in racing's margins as in its races — the amateurs, the carriages, the crowd's in-between minutes are the actual subject here.
What to notice
the carriage wheel cropped hard at the frame's edge, a reminder this is a slice of a much longer afternoon.
A race day is mostly waiting, dressed well.
Provenance
- Maker
- Edgar Degas, oil on canvas, 1876-1887
- Era
- The Victorian Turf (1837–1901)
- Chapter
- The Yard Wakes
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Made
- 1887
- Source
- Musée d'Orsay
Print master
The largest formats are printed from a master enlarged 3× from the surviving 850×685 scan by AI enhancement (Claid smart-enhance), prepared for the considered detail of a print viewed at distance. The source record above is unchanged — the enhancement serves the wall, not the archive.
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the work’s own year of publication. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-20.
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 11x17" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
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