Start of the Race of the Barberi Horses, Rome, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, 1860

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Start of the Race of the Barberi Horses, Rome, 1860, Pen and ink, watercolor, and gouache on wove paper, 6-7/8 x 11-1/8 inches ( x cm), Drawings, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (French, Valenciennes 1827–1875 Courbevoie), The race of the riderless Barbieri horses in the Corso was a Roman Carnival tradition that began with the gathering of the horses in the Piazza del Popolo and ended with their capture at the finish. Excited by this spectacle, Carpeaux divested the scene of its contemporary detail and transformed it into a timeless image of men heroically struggling with the rearing animals

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