Albrecht Dürer, The Small Horse
Hanna Jr., 1958.112 · The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0)View original →
Albrecht Dürer

The Small Horse

1505

Current Collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Medium
engraving
Dimensions
16.4 × 11 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-199640

This print, made as a companion work to The Large Horse, showcases the horse’s ideal and natural qualities. The small horse is perfectly proportioned and posed like a statue, while the large horse displays its muscularity and strength. Both display Albrecht Dürer’s graphic system, which depicts texture and space by varying the direction, density, and arrangement of lines within controlled sections. Short flicks smooth the transition from highlighted to shadowed areas, while elegant S curves define and create volume. These uniformly sized sheets, called “half sheets,” were Dürer’s most common …

Provenance

Hanna Jr., 1958.112

Registry history

  • 1505 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — prints

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