Description: Albrecht Dürer’s 1505 Renaissance engraving “The Small Horse” heliogravure created by Charles Amand Durand in Paris in the 1870s. Extremely clean, awesome impression, despite the fact Amand Durand published this in a book 150 years ago. The lines are extremely sharp with an uncommonly intense black, providing excellent contrast. Medium-weight, light cream-colored sheet. There’s an extremely narrow inch-long hairline of light orange at the left edge of the image, although I didn’t notice it until I looked closely to take these pictures. Image: 6.5 inches tall x 4.25 inches wide; plate marks: 7.25 x 4.75; sheet: 9.5 x 6. Shipped in archival glassine in a rigid mailer. Thank you for looking. I hope you’ll consider checking out my other listings, and enjoy your day! About the image: “The horse appears as a subject in a number of Durer’s engravings, often as a focus for depicting movement and proportion, or in a moral or spiritual sense as an emblem of man’s control over himself and the world. In The Small Horse, it has been suggested that the horse is a symbol of sensuality. It seems as though the lively, unbridled animal would like to escape, but is restrained by his groom. The horse is also at the centre of a tightly controlled composition: shown in profile in a heraldic style, its sense of energy and motion is arrested by the strong force created by the intersecting diagonals of the architectural setting and the pike. Dürer uses a Classical idiom of balance and idealisation influenced by Italian Renaissance art and antique sculpture, for example the bronze horses in the Piazza San Marco in Venice, absorbed during his visits to Italy. This is even more apparent when the image is compared with its companion print from the same year, The Large Horse, which is a more naturalistic depiction of a much more docile, muscular animal in a foreshortened pose, standing patiently with its groom.” – Victoria & Albert Museum, UK
Price: 115 USD
Location: Chicago, Illinois
End Time: 2024-11-30T05:41:41.000Z
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Artist: Albrecht Dürer, Amand Durand
Unit of Sale: Single Piece
Image Orientation: Portrait
Size: Small
Title: The Small Horse
Material: Ink, Paper
Framing: Unframed
Subject: Germany, Horse, Architecture, Knight
Type: Print
Item Height: 10 in
Theme: Animals, Art, Militaria
Style: Old Master Print
Features: Limited Edition
Production Technique: Etching
Country/Region of Manufacture: France
Handmade: Yes
Item Width: 6 in
Time Period Produced: 1850-1899
