A Soldier on Horseback and Other Studies
1551 to 1600
Medium
pen and brown ink and red chalk on laid paper, laid down on an old album sheet
Dimensions
Overall: 23.5 x 31.6 cm (9 1/4 x 12 7/16 in.) mount: 29.1 x 37.6 cm (11 7/16 x 14 13/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Benjamin and Lillian Hertzberg
Accession Number
2004.140.30
About the Artist
Antonio Tempesta · 1555–1630
Antonio Tempesta (1555–1630), known as 'Il Tempestino,' was a Florentine painter and printmaker whose extraordinary output of approximately 1,700 etchings made him one of the most influential printmakers of the early Baroque period. Born in Florence and trained under Santi di Tito and the Flemish master Joannes Stradanus, he enrolled in the Accademia del Disegno in 1576 before relocating to Rome i...