Horse Racers at Saint-Cloud, Antique French Watercolor by Pierre Albert Leroux buttocks basket Great in a grouping

Great in a grouping

A really wondeful thing to hang on the wall

but is still quite fine

with room for just a few tall trees around the edges

The hand-painted design--really a drawing on clay--reminds me of a  map with shape-shifting land masses

Horse Racers at Saint-Cloud, Antique French Watercolor by Pierre Albert Leroux buttocks basket Great in a groupingMy new favorite antique watercolor. I do seem to be having a bit of a horse moment, with several drawings and paintings of horses currently in the shop, but here it is the whole scene (set at the Saint Cloud race track just outside of Paris), and especially the faces of the riders, that put it over the top. The manner of the painting is also reminding me of Henry Darger, so I am projecting vivid interior lives onto these equestrians, and their horses