A Horse Lying on its Side
Sinibaldo Scorza
1620s
Medium
Pen and brown ink
Dimensions
Sheet: 5 1/4 × 6 7/8 in. (13.3 × 17.4 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Anonymous Gift, in honor of George R. Goldner, 2015
Accession Number
2015.563
Tags
Horses
About the Artist
Sinibaldo Scorza · 1589–1631
Sinibaldo Scorza (1589–1631) was an Italian painter, draughtsman, and etcher who specialized in naturalistic landscapes populated with animals, biblical and mythological subjects. Born on July 16, 1589, into a wealthy aristocratic family in Voltaggio (near Genoa), Scorza received both a humanist education befitting his noble status and rigorous artistic training under Giovanni Battista Paggi in Ge...