The Start of the Race of the Riderless Horses

1820

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 18 1/8 x 21 1/4 in. (46 x 54 cm)
Collection no.: 87.15.47
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Horace Vernet. The Start of the Race of the Riderless Horses. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

The Start of the Race of the Riderless Horses — Horace Vernet. 1820.

Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 18 1/8 x 21 1/4 in. (46 x 54 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, 1887.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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