장애물 경마가 있는 화실 내부

Around 1880 a buyer came for one of Degas's largest pictures. Alexander Cassatt, an American railway man and the brother of the painter Mary Cassatt, offered to buy the steeplechase scene with a fallen jockey that Degas had shown at the Paris Salon of 1866 and kept in the studio ever since. Degas took the canvas back to improve it first. He repainted it, put another horse into it, and the sale fell away. He was still altering the thing in the 1890s, and it left the studio only after his death.

This small canvas shows that big one propped up in the studio, filling about two thirds of what you see. A study of a jockey for it hangs on the wall at the right, beside the outline of a standing nude, and the blue-grey shape at the lower right is the back of someone looking at it.