Degas at the Races: Paintings and Drawings

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1	Battle of San Romano (after Uccello), 1859, graphite on white paper, Private collection
2	Alexander and Bucephalus, 1859-1861, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Bequest of Lore Heinemann in memory of her husband, Dr. Rudolf J. Heinemann
3	Scene from the Steeplechase: The Fallen Jockey, 1866; reworked, 1880-1881 and c. 1897, oil on canvas, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia
4	Fallen Jockey (study for Scene from the Steeplechase: The Fallen Jockey), c. 1866, charcoal and white chalk on paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia
5	Children and Ponies in a Park, 1867-1868, oil on canvas, From the Collection of Joan Whitney Payson
6	The Dance Lesson, 1879, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
7	At the Races: Before the Start, c. 1885-1892, oil on canvas, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
8	Studio Interior with "The Steeplechase," c. 1881, oil on canvas mounted on board, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Sam Spiegel Collection
9	Three Jockeys, c. 1900, pastel on tracing paper, mounted on board, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Partial and Promised Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Dillon, 1992. (1992.103.1) © 1996 by the Metropolitan Museum of Art
10	Jockey, c. 1900, washed pastel, brown wash, and transferred pastel on paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Mrs. Jane C. Carey as an addition to the Addie Burr Clark Memorial Collection