Horse galloping on the right leg

Mediums: pigmented beeswax, metal fittings, wool, cork, wooden base.
Location: The National Gallery of Art in Washington (the USA).

Edgar Degas worked less in search of perfect forms in the late period of his creative career and devoted more time to restless studies of movement and composition. In this work, the horse and rider who has risen from the saddle are in the dynamics of a fast ride and are one. Since many critics found his “Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer” sharply realistic, even ugly, and especially negatively reacted to the inclusion of factual rather than sculpturally imitated materials in the work, Degas never exhibited his waxworks; after his death, about 70 of them were found. Almost all of them, including the Galloping Horse, were made in bronze.