Villagers Holding a Horse by the Bridle, no. 6 from Various Horses¸

Accession Number
1982/2.79

Title
Villagers Holding a Horse by the Bridle, no. 6 from Various Horses¸

Artist(s)
Dirck Stoop

Object Creation Date
1651

Medium & Support
etching on paper

Dimensions
5 7/8 x 7 7/16 in. (14.8 x 18.8 cm);14 5/16 x 19 3/8 in. (36.3 x 49.2 cm)

Credit Line
Museum Purchase made possible by the Friends of the Museum of Art

Label copy
A landscape painter who worked in Utrecht, Lisbon, and London, Stoop is known for his military subjects, hunting scenes, and seaports. Among his most famous series of prints, however, is one entitled "Various Horses," which shows the different contexts in which horses functioned. The set exemplifies the seventeenth-century Dutch fascination with an encyclopedic cataloguing of the natural world.

Primary Object Classification
Print

Collection Area
Western

Rights
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Keywords
horses

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