Start of the Race of the Barberi Horses, Rome

1860

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Pen and ink, watercolor, and gouache on wove paper
Dimensions: 6-7/8 x 11-1/8 inches (17.4 x 28.3 cm)
Collection no.: 2000.105
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux. Start of the Race of the Barberi Horses, Rome. Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Purchase, Carl Selden Bequest and Karen B. Cohen Fund, 2000. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Start of the Race of the Barberi Horses, Rome — Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux. 1860.

Medium: Pen and ink, watercolor, and gouache on wove paper. Dimensions: 6-7/8 x 11-1/8 inches (17.4 x 28.3 cm).

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

Credit line: Purchase, Carl Selden Bequest and Karen B. Cohen Fund, 2000.

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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