The Jockey

A racehorse and rider shoot across the page with the speed of a poster caught in motion.

What to notice

Notice the cropped forms and strong diagonal thrust; Lautrec borrows the immediacy of Japanese prints to make speed visible.

Discover

Lautrec planned this color lithograph for a horse-racing portfolio. His admiration for Degas and ukiyo-e helped him compress movement into flat shapes and bold directional lines.