Pablo Picasso
Galloping Horse with Rider
1904
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Pablo Picasso
Galloping Horse with Rider
1904
Physical Qualities
Pen and brown ink, Sheet: 283 × 307 mm. (11 1/8 × 12 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number
1950.12.486
In this Picasso relied on line alone. He used outline to capture static poses and an excited, broken stroke to suggest the blurred contours of a figure in motion. Like the sketch of the Strong Man, these four drawings of circus performers probably came from a notebook that Picasso used during his frequent visits to the Medrano Circus in Paris. Some, such as Galloping Horse with Rider, served as preparatory studies for paintings. Others, like Girl Standing on Horse, led directly to prints, such as the drypoint At the Circus, exhibited nearby.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1949; Etta Cone, Baltimore
Picasso and the Circus
A Circus Family: Picasso to Léger
Picasso and the Horse
Cone Collection of Baltimore, Maryland, Baltimore: Etta Cone, 1934, pl. 100, top.
Christian Zervos, "Pablo Picasso, Vol. XXII," Paris: Editions Cahiers d'Art, 1970, no. 259.
Pierre Daix and Georges Boudaille, "Picasso, the Blue and Rose Periods: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1900-1906," London: Evelyn, Adams and Mackay, 1967, D.XII.14.
Adelyn Breeskin, "Picasso's 'Saltimbanques' in the Cone Collection," "The Baltimore Museum of Art News," vol. XIII, no. 3, December 1949, p. 4.
"The Cone Collection. " rev. ed., Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1967 no. 289.
Denys Sutton, "The Complete Paintings of Picasso: Blue and Rose Periods," London:
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, Ltd., 1971, no. 194a, ill.
Victor I. Carlson, "Picasso: Drawings and Watercolors, 1899-1907 in the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1976, cat. 16.
Dupuis-Labbé, Dominique, and Ocaña, Maria Teresa. Picasso y el circo: Barcelona, Museu Picasso, 15 de noviembre de 2006 - 18 de febrero de 2007, Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 9 de marzo - 10 de junio de 2007. Barcelona: Ajuntament de Barcelona, Institut de Cultura: Museu Picasso; Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2006, ill. cat. no. 55, page 121.
Inscribed: lower left in brown ink: "Picasso"
