# The Race Track, in Jean Louis Forain

Jean Louis Forain painted this in about 1891, aged 39. It is now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Our note:

> At the edge of a racecourse, a man in a top hat and long coat talks with a woman in pink and a man in riding boots and breeches, while riders gallop away across the green turf and spectators watch under parasols.

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## The work

- Date: c. 1891
- Medium: gouache on canvas
- Dimensions: overall: 80.5 x 114.9 cm (31 11/16 x 45 1/4 in.) framed: 97.8 x 134 x 6.9 cm (38 1/2 x 52 3/4 x 2 11/16 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985.64.18
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Jean Louis Forain](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/jean-louis-forain), French, 1852–1931

Forain was a friend and follower of Degas and showed in four of the Impressionist exhibitions. He became best known as a caricaturist, contributing incisive drawings to the Paris press that mocked the bourgeoisie, the courts and politics, often with sharp captions.

3 works in the collection.

## Walk on

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