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Villagers Holding a Horse by the Bridle, no. 6 from Various Horses¸

Dirck Stoop

Artwork Details

Villagers Holding a Horse by the Bridle, no. 6 from Various Horses¸
1651
Dirck Stoop
etching on paper
5 11/16 x 7 5/16 in. (14.45 x 18.57 cm);14 ¼ x 19 5/16 in. (36.2 x 49.05 cm)
Museum Purchase made possible by the Friends of the Museum of Art
1982/2.79

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A landscape painter who worked in Utrecht, Lisbon, and London, Stoop is known for his military subjects, hunting scenes, and seaports. Among his most famous series of prints, however, is one entitled "Various Horses," which shows the different contexts in which horses functioned. The set exemplifies the seventeenth-century Dutch fascination with an encyclopedic cataloguing of the natural world.

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