Jeune garçon au cheval (English: Boy Leading a Horse) is an oil on canvas painting by Pablo Picasso.

When Picasso created Boy Leading a Horse, he was an impoverished bohemian artist who was living in Rue Ravignan in the Montmartre area of Paris.

[2] Picasso had planned to create a grand composition on a very large scale, which would have featured the boy from this painting leading the horse by its bridle alongside several mounted riders located around a watering place.

[4] A preparatory sketch of the final composition can be viewed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, titled The Watering Place, which shows how the work would have appeared when finished.

[7] Julius Schoeps, Director of the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies at the University of Potsdam, as speaker for the Mendelssohn-Bartholdy family, sued the Museum of Modern Art in 2007 for the painting.

[7][8] In Vladimir Nabokov's 1962 novel Pale Fire, Professor Kinbote says he placed in his lodging-house "the reproduction of a beloved early Picasso: earth boy leading raincloud horse".