Man Holding the Bridle of a Horse
Prints and Drawings
Artist | |
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Culture | Netherlandish |
Date | between 1528 and 1530 |
Object type | drawing |
Medium, technique | pen, brown ink, blue, light green, pink, yellow wash on paper |
Dimensions | 376 × 577 mm |
Inventory number | 1365 |
Collection | Prints and Drawings |
On view | This artwork is not on display |
Probably commissioned by Charles V, Barend van Orley drew preparatory designs for twelve tapestries, now in the Louvre, showing hunting scenes of Emperor Maximilian I in the twelve months of the year. The Budapest drawing is a sketch for the tapestry representing the month of November, with a hunt feast. The artist depicted the lively scene in a wide clearing and set the numerous figures of his clear composition not in an idealized landscape but in a forest near Brussels.
Szilvia Bodnár
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