The Start of the Race of the Riderless Horses, 1820, Oil on canvas, 18 1/8 x 21 1/4 in. (46 x 54 cm), Paintings, Horace Vernet (French, Paris 1789–1863 Paris), Races of riderless horses were a highlight of Rome’s Carnival, held each February before Lent. Vernet’s painting depicts grooms struggling to restrain the horses before the start of the race—la mossa—in the Piazza del Popolo, which Goethe called 'one of the finest sights that can be seen anywhere in the world
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