Horace Vernet, 1820 - The Start of the Race of the Riderless Horses - fine art print

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Races of riderless horses were a highlight of Rome’s Carnival, held each February before Lent. Vernet’s painting depicts grooms struggling to restrain the horses before the start of the race—la mossa—in the Piazza del Popolo, which Goethe called "one of the finest sights that can be seen anywhere in the world." Vernet was certainly aware of his friend Gericault’s studies of the race when he made this one, which served a preparatory role for a larger composition acquired by the French Ambassador to Rome (now private collection).

This more than 200 years old masterpiece was made by the male painter Horace Vernet in the year 1820. The original has the following size: 18 1/8 x 21 1/4 in (46 x 54 cm) and was painted on the medium oil on canvas. Nowadays, this piece of art can be viewed in in the digital collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, New York, United States of America. With courtesy of - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, 1887 (public domain license). The creditline of the artwork is: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, 1887. On top of that, alignment is in landscape format with an aspect ratio of 1.2 : 1, meaning that the length is 20% longer than the width. The photographer, military personnel, painter Horace Vernet was a European artist from France, whose art style can primarily be assigned to Romanticism. The European artist lived for a total of 74 years - born in the year 1789 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France and passed away in 1863 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France.

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