Plate Number 636. "Daisy" jumping a hurdle, saddled, preparing for the leap

Eadweard Muybridge

National Gallery of Art

This is a photograph of a sequence showing a horse in motion. The image features a series of still frames arranged in a grid format, capturing a horse performing a jump over a hurdle. Each frame documents a progressive stage of the horse's movement, illustrating the fluid motion of running and leaping. The background is undistracted and neutral. The sequence captures the elegance and power of the horse through its stride and airborne motion over the obstacle. The monochromatic tones lend a timeless quality to the image.