
About the work
Before the Race is a pastel with charcoal underdrawing on tracing paper mounted on cardboard by Edgar Degas, dated c. 1887–89. Edgar Degas (1834–1917) showed with the Impressionists but called himself a realist. He is known for dancers, bathers, racecourses and café scenes seen from unusual angles, in oil, pastel, monotype and print. The original is in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art.
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