• Antique oil painting of a jockey in a red silk jacket and cap on a bay horse, painted on a round dark plate within a gilt and green painted frame with relief foliage corners
  • Angled view of the round jockey portrait under a carved wood table, showing the embossed oak leaf corners and patinated gilding
  • Close angled detail of the painted bay horse and red jacketed rider, with visible age cracks and losses to the gilt round mat
  • Framed jockey painting leaning against a bentwood chair on a pale carpet in afternoon sun, travertine and stone tile visible behind
  • Front view of the jockey painting, the rider in red silks and cream breeches holding the reins against a near black ground, a cracked gilt round mat around the plate
  • Jockey on horseback painting propped beneath a carved bobbin edge console, sunlight raking across the gilt and sage green frame
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Antique oil painting of a jockey in a red silk jacket and cap on a bay horse, painted on a round dark plate within a gilt and green painted frame with relief foliage corners
Angled view of the round jockey portrait under a carved wood table, showing the embossed oak leaf corners and patinated gilding
Close angled detail of the painted bay horse and red jacketed rider, with visible age cracks and losses to the gilt round mat
Framed jockey painting leaning against a bentwood chair on a pale carpet in afternoon sun, travertine and stone tile visible behind
Front view of the jockey painting, the rider in red silks and cream breeches holding the reins against a near black ground, a cracked gilt round mat around the plate
Jockey on horseback painting propped beneath a carved bobbin edge console, sunlight raking across the gilt and sage green frame

Antique Oil Painting of a Jockey, Round Metal Plate

$980.00
$980.00
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Found in France

This oil painting depicts a jockey and his mount pausing quietly before a race, rendered on a round metal plate rather than canvas, a format that lends the surface an unusual density and sheen. The jockey sits upright in his red silks and white breeches, reins held loose, while the horse stands calm against a dark, almost velvety ground that pushes the pair forward into the light.

Attributed to the school of the 19th or early 20th century, the painting sits within a long tradition of sporting art focused on the quiet moments around a race rather than the action itself, a genre especially popular in France and England during this period. The brushwork is confident and economical, built up in thick passages on the horse's coat and jockey's silks that catch the light differently depending on the angle it's viewed from.

The painting is presented in its original carved giltwood frame with a green painted outer border, oak leaf ornament in the corners, and a wide gilt oval mount surrounding the round painted surface. The frame shows genuine age consistent with the painting itself, including a few small separations typical of a piece well over a century old.

At 8 7/8 inches in diameter, it is a striking, self-contained piece of sporting art, well suited to a study, library, or anywhere equestrian and racing subjects are collected.

Collectors Notes

Sporting art like this doesn't come through our doors often, so it's a natural companion to the horse and riding pieces in our Equestrian collection and the paintings in our Art collection.

The frame alone is worth a close look if you're interested in period giltwork, and it suits our Home Decor edit as well.
Dimensions

8 7/8" diameter
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Antique oil painting of a jockey in a red silk jacket and cap on a bay horse, painted on a round dark plate within a gilt and green painted frame with relief foliage corners
Angled view of the round jockey portrait under a carved wood table, showing the embossed oak leaf corners and patinated gilding
Close angled detail of the painted bay horse and red jacketed rider, with visible age cracks and losses to the gilt round mat
Framed jockey painting leaning against a bentwood chair on a pale carpet in afternoon sun, travertine and stone tile visible behind
Front view of the jockey painting, the rider in red silks and cream breeches holding the reins against a near black ground, a cracked gilt round mat around the plate
Jockey on horseback painting propped beneath a carved bobbin edge console, sunlight raking across the gilt and sage green frame
Collectors Gene | Cameron Ross Steiner

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