Gig Upsetting at the Races by Philip James de Loutherbourg

Monochrome painting of a race meeting with an overturned gig, startled horses, spectators, tents, and a large tree.

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Gig Upsetting at the Races, Philip James de Loutherbourg (1756), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Via artnap.com

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A busy outdoor race meeting unfolds across a grassy field, where a light gig has overturned in the foreground and a woman is thrown into the air beside a pair of white horses. Spectators in fashionable dress gather near tents and a large tree on the right, while racing horses and riders gallop past toward the distance. This painting by Philip James de Loutherbourg, dated 1756, is held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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Date

1756

Medium

Painting

Museum

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

License

Public domain