CHAPTER V 



THE PACES OF THE HORSE 



As a completion of the studies we have just been making, 

 some notions relative to the paces of the horse seem to us 

 to be absolutely indicated. 



Let it be permitted to us to remind the reader in this 

 connection that we have already been for twenty-one years 

 occupied with this question, and that by means of an 

 articulated figure, a sort of movable mannikin, we have 

 endeavoured to demonstrate to artists the differences which 

 characterize the various paces of the horse.* The arrange- 

 ment then employed cannot, evidently, be used in the 

 present volume, but we will inspire ourselves, in the prepara- 

 tion of the present chapter, with the elements of demonstra- 

 tion which we have employed, and which, in the course of 

 our teaching, we have had the satisfaction of seeing favour- 

 ably received. 



The progressive movements by which an individual 



* Edouard Cuyer, ' Les Allures du Cheval,' demonstrated with the aid 

 of a coloured, separable, and articulated table, Paris, 1883. 



This table was the subject of a note communicated to the Academy 

 of Sciences by Professor Marey ('Comptes rendus de I'Academie de 

 Sciences') at the meeting of June 26, 1882. On the other hand, it has 

 been the subject of a presentation which we have had the honour of being 

 permitted to make to the Academy of Fine Arts at the meeting of 

 November 4, 1882. 



The fasciculus in question has been since united with a more complete 

 whole as regards the study of the horse. E. Cuyer and E. Alex, ' Le 

 Cheval: Exterieur, Structure et Fonctions, Races,' avec 26 planches 

 coloriees, decoupees et superposees, Paris, 1886. 



