Room 2: The races

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Contains: 'Rider in a red coat, taking off his top hat (Cavalier en habit rouge, enlevant son chapeau haut-de-forme)' c 1868–70 peinture à l’essence on pink paper 43.5 x 27.6 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Housed at the Département des arts graphiques, Musée du Louvre RF 12276 Brame and Reff 66 © RMN / Jean-Gilles Berizzi 'The racecourse (Amateur jockeys close to a carriage) (Le champ de courses (Jockeys amateurs près d'une voiture))' 1876–87 oil on canvas 66 x 81 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris RF 1980 Legacy of Count Isaac de Camondo, 1911 Lemoisne 461 © RMN / Hervé Lewandowski 'Woman with field glasses (Femme à la lorgnette (La dame aux jumelles))' 1875–76 peinture à l’essence on cardboard 48 x 32 cm Galerie Neue Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlung Dresden 2601 Lemoisne 431 'At the races: before the start (Aux courses: avant le départ)' c 1880–92 oil on canvas 40 x 89 cm Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia 875.496 Collection of Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon Lemoisne 502 Photograph: Katherine Wetzel © Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 'Horse galloping on right foot (Cheval au galop sur le pied droit)' modelled c 1890; cast c 1926 bronze cast O of 25 30.5 x 47 x 21.3 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis 55.15 The David Draper Dayton Fund Czestochowski and Pingeot 47 'The return of the herd (La rentrée du troupeau)' c 1898 oil on canvas 71 x 92 cm New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester IIA1969 Lemoisne 1213