Description: Albrecht Durer (German, 1471-1528)The Small Horse engraving, late 19th or early 20th Century impression visible image measures approximately: 4 1/8" W x 6 1/4" Hframe measures approximately: 15 5/8" W x 17 7/8" H Please note that shipping charges are inclusive of insurance, payment processing and carrier fees. About the Print (from the Victoria and Albert Museum) The horse appears as a subject in a number of Dürer’s engravings, often as a focus for depicting movement and proportion, or in a moral or spiritual sense as an emblem of man’s control over himself and the world. In The Small Horse, it has been suggested that the horse is a symbol of sensuality. It seems as though the lively, unbridled animal would like to escape, but is restrained by his groom. The horse is also at the centre of a tightly controlled composition: shown in profile in a heraldic style, its sense of energy and motion is arrested by the strong force created by the intersecting diagonals of the architectural setting and the pike. Dürer uses a Classical idiom of balance and idealisation influenced by Italian Renaissance art and antique sculpture, for example the bronze horses in the Piazza San Marco in Venice, absorbed during his visits to Italy. This is even more apparent when the image is compared with its companion print from the same year, The Large Horse, which is a more naturalistic depiction of a much more docile, muscular animal in a foreshortened pose, standing patiently with its groom.
Price: 2500 USD
Location: Chicago, Illinois
End Time: 2023-12-10T00:50:41.000Z
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Artist: Albrecht Durer
Type: Print
Image Orientation: Portrait
Size: Small (up to 12in.)
Title: The Small Horse
Material: Paper
Framing: Matted & Framed
Production Technique: Engraving
Subject: Horse
