The Watering Place (Horses Bathing) (L'Abreuvoir [Chevaux au bain]) from the Saltimbanques series

Pablo Picasso, 1906, published 1913

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Horses at a watering place become the focus of a compact drypoint whose subject expands Picasso's circus-era imagery toward landscape and animal movement. Picasso's choice of drypoint shapes how the subject is encountered: the material, scale, and method are not incidental but part of the artwork's visual argument. The record is held by Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA, whose direct object page verifies the canonical title, date, medium, dimensions, and collection attribution. This catalog entry therefore distinguishes documented facts from interpretive reading and directs visitors to the institutional record for further research.

MoMA records a 1906 design published in 1913, placing it at the end of the Rose Period and before Picasso's radical 1907 changes. The work belongs in a broader account of Picasso's sustained shifts among drawing, painting, printmaking, collage, and sculpture rather than in a simplified single-style narrative. Its museum object number and rights statement allow the gallery to provide reliable scholarship without presenting an unlicensed reproduction as if it were freely reusable. The site will retain the official collection link as the authoritative factual reference and use a rights-aware fallback for the image display.

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