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The Jockey led to the start (Le Jockey se rendant au porteau)

(French, 1864–1901)
1899
Medium/TechniqueLithograph printed in black on wove paper, extensively reworked with blue-green and brown paints
DimensionsSheet: 51.5 x 36.1 cm (20 1/4 x 14 3/16 in.)
Credit LineHelen and Alice Colburn Fund
Accession number55.951
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsRecto: in pencil, c.l.: Couler; in pencil, l.r.: aü
ProvenanceOtto Gerstenberg (b. 1848 - d. 1935; Lugt 2785), Berlin; 1935, by inheritance to his daughter, Margarethe Scharf (b. 1889 - d. 1961), Berlin; May 18-20, 1954, Scharf sale, Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, Stuttgart, lot 556, sold for DM 10,500 to Richard H. Zinser (dealer, b. 1884 - d. 1984), Forest Hills, NY; 1955, sold by Richard Zinser to the MFA for $4,500. (Accession Date: November 10, 1955)