The French Horse from Géricault to Picasso: Works from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is on view March 3 through April 25, 2016, in the Harnett Museum of Art. The horse was omnipresent in nineteenth-century France — not only did humans awake and doze off to the clatter of their hooves in the streets and the sounds of their snortles, whinnies, and neighs, avoid their dung as they walked, and smelled their horse-sweat, but they saw them portrayed in every manner and style by all types of artists. The exhibition explores this subject in detail, with major artworks in painting, sculpture, and on paper by artists including Pablo Picasso, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Edgar Degas, Theodore Géricault, and others, with every major movement in French art from Romanticism to Surrealism represented. Featuring more than forty works, the exhibition draws from the collections of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts including the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon.