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The Greyhound

This small fragment derives from a larger composition of a Velocipedist that Manet cut up, and of which three of the parts survived until 1883 at least. Startlingly enough, the pose of the greyhound, its front legs extended in a " rocking -horse" position, virtually repeats that of the horse seen at the right, bearing down on us at speed the racetrack painting of 1864 Courses 6 Longchamp of which three painted versions, a watercolour, and a drawing exist. The pose, therefore, was "etched" on Manet's mind sufficiently well for him to recall it and re-use it in this study of restrained speed: the animal canters effortlessly at the side of its master's machine.



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