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A Mounted Grey Horse Being Schooled in Piaffe
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A Mounted Grey Horse Being Schooled in Piaffe

Medium

Black chalk, graphite, brush and gray wash; framing lines in black chalk or graphite, by a later hand

Dimensions

Sheet: 5 5/8 × 7 15/16 in. (14.3 × 20.2 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Fletcher and Frits and Rita Markus Funds, 2013

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Philips Wouwerman

1619–1668Dutch Republic

Specialized in military and hunting scenes in which horses are prominent. Son of a little known painter in Alkmaar, Paul Joosten Wouwerman. Philips died at the age of 48 reportedly as the result of an accident, having created a large number of landscapes, battle scenes and the elegant life of his time, set in castles, parties, hunting, huntsmen and prized horses.