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An Allegory: Male Nude in a Stable with Four Wild Horses

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An Allegory: Male Nude in a Stable with Four Wild Horses

Prospero Fontana

ca. 1512–after 1593

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, over black chalk. Framing lines in pen and brown ink

Tags

Male Nudes Horses

Dimensions

4-1/2 x 3-1/4 in. (11.4 x 8.3 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1992

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Prospero Fontana

1512–1597

A pupil of Innocenzio da Imola, Prospero Fontana travelled to Rome, where he was employed by Pope Julius III, and was later engaged by Francesco Primaticcio, who was working at Fontainebleau at the time. From Fontainebleau he went to Genoa, where he worked for the Doria gallery. On returning to his native city he became the master of Lodovico, Annibale and Agostino Carracci, Dionysius Calvaert, Tiarini and Achille Calici, and was several times director of the guild of painters. Comment on works: Religious

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