A Mounted Grey Horse Being Schooled in Piaffe
Philips Wouwerman
after 1646
Medium
Black chalk, graphite, brush and gray wash; framing lines in black chalk or graphite, by a later hand
Dimensions
Sheet: 5 5/8 × 7 15/16 in. (14.3 × 20.2 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Fletcher and Frits and Rita Markus Funds, 2013
Accession Number
2013.144
Tags
HorsesMen
About the Artist
Philips Wouwerman
Specialized in military and hunting scenes in which horses are prominent. Son of a little known painter in Alkmaar, Paul Joosten Wouwerman. Philips died at the age of 48 reportedly as the result of an accident, having created a large number of landscapes, battle scenes and the elegant life of his time, set in castles, parties, hunting, huntsmen and prized horses.