Approximately in 1873, the artist temporarily stopped referring to the topic associated with jumps, and after 1876, only occasionally portrayed stories on this topic.
The painting “The Fallen Jockey” is one of the last works of this famous series, but it can be final. The work is based on one of the earliest compositions of Degas, and the researchers claim that the picture was rewritten three times, this is confirmed by the emerging contours remaining from previous versions.
The plot of the author is unknown, the canvas shows only a sad consequence, which ended the fateful leap, and the fallen jockey, most likely, is dead.
Creating the image of a jockey, the artist invited his brother to pose – Oschel, whose portrait he did not re-do in later versions of the work.
For Degas himself, this canvas was very expensive, and as critics of art, despite the fact that it was created to order, he did not sell the work, not wanting to part with it.
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