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Six horses for the king of Poland: making and staging a diplomatic gift at the court of Louis XIV

08/2024 | 1457 | 166

Pages: 810–825

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Author:

Rinaldi, Stefano (Rinaldi, Stefano)

Subjects

artists:

Piraube, Bertrand / Laurent, François (Languedoc) / Vincent du Trou, Nicolas / Pot, Paul le / Marchais, Jean Baptiste

dates:

1710-1719

museums and institutions:

Rüstkammer, Dresden

patrons:

Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715

sources:

Account books / Correspondence

subjects:

Augustus II the Strong, King of Poland, 1670-1733 / Diplomacy / Gifts / Horses (animals) / Saddles / Pistols / Embroidery

Illustrations

Attributed works:

1. Parade saddle with holster covers and caparison from Louis XIV’s state gift, here with a pair of flintlock pistols (also shown in Fig.6). French. 1715. Crimson silk velvet with relief embroidery and fringes of gilt thread and cannetilles, gilt mounts, substructure of wood, linen, padding and leather (pistol holsters lined in crimson velvet were added between 1785 and 1821 as replacements for Russian leather originals), 60 by 68 by 55 cm. (saddle), 98 by 133 cm. (caparison, fringes of 10–11 cm. not included), length 45 cm. each

Attributed works:

12. Designs for firearms ornaments, by De Lacollombe after François Laurent (called Languedoc). c.1705. Engraving, 18 by 27 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

Attributed works:

13. Designs for firearms ornaments, by De Lacollombe after François Laurent (called Languedoc). c.1705. Engraving, 17 by 25 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

Attributed works:

14. Flintlock gun, by François Laurent (called Languedoc). c.1695. Barrel: partially gilt and gold-damascened steel; lock and mounts: steel; stock: walnut inlaid with silver thread, 158.7 cm. (total length), 3079 g. (weight). (Rüstkammer, Dresden, inv. no.G 735; photograph Jürgen Karpinski).

Attributed works:

15. Pair of flintlock pistols, by Jean-François Laurent (called Languedoc). 1717. Barrels: blued and gold-damascened steel; locks: steel; mounts: partially gilt iron; stocks: walnut, 53.4 cm. (total length), 1143/1134 g. (weight). (Rüstkammer, Dresden, inv. nos.J 598 and J 663; photograph Jürgen Lösel).

Attributed works:

16. Detail of Fig.15, showing the barrel of one of the pistols.

Attributed works:

2. Parade saddle with holster covers from Louis XIV’s state gift. French. 1715. Yellow silk velvet with relief embroidery and fringes of silver thread and cannetilles, silver mounts, substructure of wood, linen, padding and leather (pistol holsters are modern replacements for Russian leather originals), 58 by 61.5 by 47 cm. (saddle), length 45 cm. each (holster covers). (Rüstkammer, Dresden; photograph Jürgen Lösel).

Attributed works:

3. Detail of Fig.1, showing the embroidery on the caparison by Nicolas Vincent du Trou. (Photograph Jürgen Lösel).

Attributed works:

4. Detail of Fig.2, showing the embroidery on the saddle by Nicolas Vincent du Trou. (Photograph Jürgen Lösel).

Attributed works:

5. Detail of Fig.1, showing the ribbon on the caparison. (Photograph Jürgen Lösel).

Attributed works:

6. Pair of flintlock pistols, by Bertrand Piraube. c.1690. Barrels, locks and mounts: partially gilt and gold-damascened steel; stocks: walnut inlaid with silver thread and engraved silver sheet, 52.7 / 52.6 cm. (total length), 1213 / 1204 g. (weight). (Rüstkammer, Dresden, inv. nos.J 1419 and J 1420; photograph Jürgen Lösel).

Attributed works:

7. Pair of flintlock pistols, by François Laurent (called Languedoc). c.1695– 1700. Barrels, locks and mounts: partially gilt and gold-damascened steel; thumbplates: partially gilt silver; stocks: walnut inlaid with silver thread, 50.7 cm. (total length), 1080 / 1075 g. (weight) (Rüstkammer, Dresden, inv. nos.J 644 and J 645; photograph Jürgen Karpinski).

Attributed works:

8–11. Details of Fig.7. (Photographs of Figs.8 and 10 Jürgen Karpinski; photographs of Figs.9 and 11 Jürgen Lösel).

Article

Phillipo: an Ottoman merchant painted by George Stubbs

04/2024 | 1453 | 166

Pages: 348–357

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Author:

Mould, Theodore (Mould, Theodore)

Subjects

artists:

Stubbs, George / Reynolds, Joshua / Cosway, Richard

dates:

1760-1769

museums and institutions:

Royal Society of Arts

subjects:

British art / Portraits / Horses (animals) / Dyeing / Leather / Ottomans (people) / Sitters

Illustrations

Attributed works:

1. The Duke of Ancaster’s grey Turkish horse with a Turkish groom at Creswell Crags, by George Stubbs. c.1763–64. Oil on canvas, 90.2 by 111.8 cm. (Trustees of the Grimsthorpe and Drummond Castle Trust Ltd).

Attributed works:

10. A view of the ruined city of Palmyra, by Giovanni Battista Borra after Robert Wood. 1753. Engraving. (From R. Wood: Ruins of Palmyra, London 1753; British Library, London).

Attributed works:

2. Philip an Armenian, circle of George Stubbs. Before 1794. Etching, 18.4 by 13.5 cm. (British Museum, London).

Attributed works:

3. Detail of Fig.1, showing the portrait, dress and red leather boots of Phillipo.

Attributed works:

4. View from Beaufort Buildings, looking north towards the Strand and the entrance to Denmark Court, by Thomas Sandby. 1723–98. Watercolour, with pen and grey ink on paper, 4.6 by 6.2 cm. (British Museum, London).

Attributed works:

5. The red-goatskin cover of A Register of the Premiums and Bounties Given by the Society, published by James Phillips, London 1778. (British Library, London).

Attributed works:

6. A Tartar, by Octavian Dalvimart. 1802. Engraving. (From A. Williams: The Costume of Turkey, London 1802, pl.XXXII; Wellcome Collection, London).

Attributed works:

7. Working drawing for The Anatomy of the Horse, by George Stubbs. 1758–66. Pencil, black and red chalk and red-brown ink on paper, 48 by 30 cm. (Royal Academy of Arts, London).

Attributed works:

8. Lord Grosvenor’s Arabian stallion with a groom, by George Stubbs. c.1765. Oil on canvas, 99.3 by 83.5 cm. (Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth).

Attributed works:

9. Portrait of an Armenian, by Richard Cosway. 1771. Oil on canvas, 92.4 by 71.1 cm. (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven).

Article

Biting satire: notes on Salvador Dalí’s ‘Debris of an automobile’

12/2023 | 1449 | 165

Pages: 1305–1319

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Author:

Lomas, David (Lomas, David)

Subjects

artists:

Dalí, Salvador / Picasso, Pablo / Leonardo da Vinci

dates:

1930-1939

museums and institutions:

Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States

styles:

Surrealism / Futurism

subjects:

Spanish art / Freud, Sigmund / Horses (animals) / Psychoanalysis / Civil War (Spain:1936-1939)

Illustrations

Attributed works:

1. Detail of Fig.2, showing a painter at an easel with the Ampurdan plain stretching beyond.

Attributed works:

10. The dream and lie of Franco, by Pablo Picasso. 1937. Aquatint and etching, image 31.7 by 42.1 cm. (Plate I, 8th January 1937, printed by Roger Lacourière; © Succession Picasso and DACS, London; Scala, Florence).

Attributed works:

11. Plate from Les Chants de Maldoror (Comte de Lautréamont), by Salvador Dalí. 1933–34. Photogravure and drypoint after celluloid engraving, 33 by 25 cm. (© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala – Salvador Dalí and DACS, London; Scala, Florence; Florence/bpk, Bildagentur fuer Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte, Berlin; Sprengel Museum, Hannover).

Attributed works:

12. The knight of death, by Salvador Dalí. c.1934. Oil on canvas, 65 by 54 cm. (Private collection; Bridgeman Images).

Attributed works:

13. Plate from Les Chants de Maldoror (Comte de Lautréamont), by Salvador Dalí. 1934. Photogravure and drypoint after celluloid engraving, 33.2 by 25.2 cm. (© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala – Salvador Dalí and DACS, London; Scala, Florence; Museum of Modern Art, New York).

Attributed works:

14. Expressions of fury in horses, a lion and a man, by Leonardo da Vinci. c.1503–04. Pen and ink with wash, and red chalk on paper, 19.6 by 30.8 cm. (© 2023 His Majesty King Charles III; Royal Collection Trust).

Attributed works:

15. Study for Suburbs of a paranoiac-critical town, by Salvador Dalí. 1935. Pencil and ink on paper, 32 by 22.8 cm. (© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala – Salvador Dalí and DACS, London; Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg, Berlin).

Attributed works:

16. Paranoiac woman-horse (invisible sleeping woman, lion, horse), by Salvador Dalí. 1930. Oil on canvas, 50 by 65 cm. (© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala – Salvador Dalí and DACS, London; NPL – DeA Picture Library; Bridgeman Images; Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris).

Attributed works:

17. Conversion of St Paul, by Caravaggio. 1601. Oil on canvas, 230 by 175 cm. (S. Maria del Popolo, Rome; Bridgeman Images).

Attributed works:

18. St George slaying the dragon or Roger and Angelica or Perseus and Andromeda, by Giorgio de Chirico. 1940. Oil on canvas, 91 by 116 cm. (Private collection).

Attributed works:

19. Battle for the Standard (re-touched copy after Leonardo da Vinci’s Battle of Anghiari), by Peter Paul Rubens. 1603. Black chalk, pen and paint on paper, 45.3 by 63.6 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; Bridgeman Images).

Attributed works:

2. Debris of an automobile giving birth to a blind horse biting a telephone, by Salvador Dalí. 1938. Oil on canvas, 54.5 by 65.1 cm. (© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala – Salvador Dalí and DACS, London; Scala, Florence; Museum of Modern Art, New York).

Attributed works:

20. Paranonïa, by Salvador Dalí. c.1935–36. Oil on canvas, 38.1 by 46 cm. (© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala – Salvador Dalí and DACS, London; Dalí Museum, St Petersburg).

Attributed works:

21. Duncan’s horses, by Salvador Dalí. 1946. Pen and India ink on card, 25.3 by 19.4 cm. (Private collection).

Attributed works:

22. The city rises, by Umberto Boccioni. 1911. Tempera on card, 36 by 60 cm. (Jesi Collection, Milan; Bridgeman Images).

Attributed works:

3. The enigma of Hitler, by Salvador Dalí. 1938. Oil on canvas, 95 by 141 cm. (© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala – Salvador Dalí and DACS, London; Bridgeman Images; Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid).

Attributed works:

4. Street lamp, study of light, by Giacomo Balla. 1909. Oil on canvas, 174.7 by 114.7 cm. (© Peter Willi; Bridgeman Images; Museum of Modern Art, New York).

Attributed works:

5. Detail of Fig.2, showing Gala as a winged Victory and a father and child with a Leonardesque rock formation at Cadaqués.

Attributed works:

6. Detail of Guernica, by Pablo Picasso. 1937. Oil on canvas. (© Succession Picasso and DACS, London; Bridgeman Images; Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid).

Attributed works:

7. Detail of Fig.2, showing the horse and the light bulb hanging above it, which echoes the position of the electric light in Guernica.

Attributed works:

8. William Tell, by Salvador Dalí. 1930. Oil and collage on canvas, 113 by 87 cm. (© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala – Salvador Dalí and DACS, London; Bridgeman Images; Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris).

Attributed works:

9. Horse head: study for ‘Guernica’, May 2, 1937, by Pablo Picasso. Oil on canvas, 65 by 92 cm. (© Succession Picasso and DACS, London; Scala, Florence; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte, Reina Sofia, Madrid).

Article

A rediscovered drawing by Hendrick Goltzius

05/2022 | 1430 | 164

Pages: 444-449

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Difuria, Arthur J. (Difuria, Arthur J.)

Author:

Silver, Larry (Silver, Larry)

Subjects

artists:

Goltzius, Hendrick

dates:

1590-1609

media:

Drawings / Prints

museums and institutions:

Musei Capitolini, Rome, Italy

places:

Rome

subjects:

Equestrian statues / Aurelius, Marcus / Collections, Private / Horses (animals) / Drawings / Techniques

Illustrations

Attributed works:

11. Detail of Fig.1, showing the hatching in the horse’s chin.

Attributed works:

12. Detail of Fig.8, showing the hatching beneath Hercules’ buttocks.

Attributed works:

13. Farnese Hercules, rear view, by Hendrick Goltzius. 1617. Pen and ink on paper, 41.9 by 30.3 cm. (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).

Attributed works:

14. ‘Opus Praxitelis’: one of the Dioscuri of the Quirinal Hill, Rome, by Hendrick Goltzius. 1591. Red chalk on paper, 37.8 by 32.6 cm. (Teylers Museum, Haarlem).

Attributed works:

15. Detail of Fig.14, showing the vein in the horse’s right flank.

Attributed works:

16. Detail of Fig.13, showing the hatching in the buttocks.

Attributed works:

17. Marcus Aurelius equestrian monument, Rome, by Hendrick Goltzius. 1591. Black and white chalk on blue paper, 36.8 by 30.5 cm. (Teylers Museum, Haarlem).

Attributed works:

18. Detail of Fig.17, showing the reinforced outlines.

Attributed works:

19. Marcus Aurelius equestrian monument, Rome, by Hendrick Goltzius. 1591. Red chalk on paper, 40.9 by 31 cm. (Teylers Museum, Haarlem).

Attributed works:

2. Horse’s head, Marcus Aurelius equestrian monument, Rome, here attributed to Hendrick Goltzius. After 1591. Red chalk on paper, 44.5 by 28.7 cm. (excluding border). (Private collection).

Attributed works:

20 and 21. Details of Fig.19, showing passages of unblended hatching.

Attributed works:

3. Goltzius’s right hand, by Hendrick Goltzius. 1591. Red chalk on paper, 36.9 by 18.6 cm. (Teylers Museum, Haarlem).

Attributed works:

4. Detail of Fig.1, showing the horse’s vein and eyeball.

Attributed works:

5. Farnese Hercules, rear view, by Hendrick Goltzius. 1591. Black and white chalk on blue paper, 36.2 by 21 cm. (Teylers Museum, Haarlem).

Attributed works:

6 and 7. Details of Fig.5, showing Hercules’ left thigh and calf.

Attributed works:

8. Farnese Hercules, rear view, by Hendrick Goltzius. 1591. Red chalk, 38.9 by 21.3 cm. (Teylers Museum, Haarlem).

Attributed works:

9 and 10. Details of Fig.8, showing the hatching in Hercules’ shoulder blades and back.

Western art unattributed:

1. Detail of the horse’s head, Marcus Aurelius equestrian monument. Rome, AD 161. Bronze, height 424 cm. (Musei Capitolini, Rome).

Exhibition Review

George Stubbs: The Man, The Horse, The Obsession. Mauritshuis, The Hague

05/2020 | 1406 | 162

Pages: 443-445

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Reviewer:

Kidson, Alex (Kidson, Alex)

Subjects

artists:

Stubbs, George

dates:

2020-2030

museums and institutions:

Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, Great Britain / Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands

subjects:

British art / Animal Paintings / Horses (animals) / Portraits / Anatomy

Reviewed Items

subjects:

George Stubbs: The Man, The Horse, The Obsession Mauritshuis, The Hague 20th February–1st June | :

Illustrations

Attributed works:

13. Skeleton of Eclipse (1764– 89), 67 by 55 by 246 cm. (Royal Veterinary College, London; exh. Mauritshuis, The Hague).

Attributed works:

14. Two horses communing in a landscape, by George Stubbs. Before 1777. Oil on canvas, 124 by 123 cm. (Weston Park, Shropshire; exh. MK Gallery, Milton Keynes).

Attributed works:

15. Eclipse at Newmarket with groom and jockey, by George Stubbs. c.1794. Oil on canvas, 100.5 by 131.5 cm. (Jockey Club, Newmarket; exh. MK Gallery, Milton Keynes).

Book Review

Giorgio de Chirico: Catalogo Generale. Volume 2: 1910–1975; Volume 3: 1913–1976; and Volume 4: 1913–1975. Edited by Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico

01/2020 | 1402 | 162

Pages: 83-84

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Reviewer:

Radford, Robert (Radford, Robert)

Subjects

art literature:

Catalogues raisonnés

artists:

Chirico, Giorgio de

dates:

1910-1919 / 1920-1929 / 1930-1939 / 1940-1949 / 1950-1959 / 1960-1979

sources:

Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico, Rome, Italy

subjects:

Metaphysical art / Copies / Still lifes / Flower pieces / Horses (animals) / Portraits / Theatre design / Poetry

subjects:

Italian art

Reviewed Items

subjects:

Giorgio de Chirico: Catalogo Generale Edited by Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico. Volume 2: 1910–1975. 520 pp. incl. approx. 500 col. + b. & w. ills. (Maretti Editore, Imola, 2015), £275. ISBN 978–889–885–559–9. Volume 3: 1913–1976. 472 pp. incl. 475 col. + b. & w. ills. (Maretti Editore, Imola, 2016), £275. ISBN 978–8–898–85578–0. Volume 4: 1913–1975. 512 pp. incl. 451 col. + 475 b. & w. ills. (Maretti Editore, Imola, 2018), £275. ISBN 978–88–9397–000–6. | :

Illustrations

Attributed works:

8. School of gladiators: the fighting, by Giorgio De Chirico. 1928. Oil on canvas, 160 by 240 cm. (Casa Museo Boschi Di Stefano, Milan; Bridgeman Images).

Article

Thomas Villiers, 2nd Earl of Clarendon, as a patron of George Stubbs

08/2016 | 1361 | 158

Pages: 616-627

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Author:

Campbell, Colin (Campbell, Colin)

Subjects

artists:

Stubbs, George

patrons:

Villiers, Thomas, Second Earl of Clarendon, 1753-1824

subjects:

Patronage / Commissions / British painting / Animal Paintings / Collections, Private / Horses (animals) / Inventories

Illustrations

Attributed works:

17. Thomas Villiers, 2nd Earl of Clarendon, by William Bond after Robert Trewick Bone. Published 1825 (National Portrait Gallery, London)

Attributed works:

21. Ballarina, a bay mare belonging to the 2nd Earl of Clarendon, by George Stubbs. 1800 (Private collection, USA)

Attributed works:

22. Thomas Freeman, the Earl of Clarendon's game-keeper, by George Stubbs. 1800 (Paul Mellon Collection, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven)

Attributed works:

23. Fowl, by George Stubbs. Table X in part II of A Comparative Anatomical Exposition, large folio, 1804 (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven)

Attributed works:

24. The Lincolnshire Ox, by George Townley Stubbs after George Stubbs. Published 20th January 1791 (British Museum, London)

Attributed works:

25. Black and white spaniel following a scent, by George Stubbs. 1773 (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond VA)

Attributed works:

26. Moose deer, by Peter Mazell after George Stubbs. Published 1784 (Blacker-Wood Collection, Rare Books and Special Collections, McGill University Library, Quebec)

Attributed works:

27. The lion and stag, by Benjamin Green after George Stubbs. Published 1st October 1770 (Paul Mellon Collection, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven)

Attributed works:

28. The yak of Tartary, by an anonymous engraver after George Stubbs. Published 25th March 1800 (British Museum, London)

Western art unattributed:

18. The Grove, near Watford, Hertfordshire, by an unknown photographer. c.1925 (Private collection)

Western art unattributed:

19. The inner library at The Grove, by an unidentified artist. c.1900 (Present whereabouts unknown)

Western art unattributed:

20. Lodge at Grove Park, by an unidentified artist. Early 19th century (Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies; DE/C1/Z7/113)

Exhibition Review

Animals in art. London

09/2012 | 1314 | 154

Pages: 655-657

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Reviewer:

Watkins, Nicholas (Watkins, Nicholas)

Subjects

dates:

2010-2019

museums and institutions:

British Museum, London, Great Britain

places:

London / England

print:

Animals

subjects:

Reviews / Exhibitions / Animals / Horses (animals)

Reviewed Items

subjects:

The Horse from Arabia to Royal Ascot | institution: British Museum

Illustrations

Attributed works:

49. Gimcrack with John Pratt up on Newmarket Heath, by George Stubbs. c.1765. Canvas, 100 by 124 cm. (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; exh. British Museum, London).

Western art unattributed:

47. A lion hunt. Assyrian, c.875–860 BC. Gypsum relief, 98 by 139.5 cm. (British Museum, London).

Western art unattributed:

48. Three galloping horses. Safavid dynasty. Iran, Tabriz(?), c.1550. Ink, watercolour and gold on paper, 13.7 by 22 cm. (British Museum, London).

Article

‘Ecorché’ drawings by Edwin Landseer

05/2012 | 1310 | 154

Pages: 337-344

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Author:

Owens, Susan (Owens, Susan)

Subjects

artists:

Landseer, Edwin

dates:

1810-1819 / 1820-1829

museums and institutions:

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain

print:

Landseer, Edwin

subjects:

Anatomical drawings / Drawings / Animals / Ecorchés (models) / British

subjects:

Collections, Public / Acquisitions

subjects:

Dogs (animals) / Horses (animals) / Cats (animals)

Illustrations

Attributed works:

34. Study of an écorché greyhound, lateral view, by Edwin Landseer. c.1817–21. Black and red chalk and graphite heightened with white chalk on buff-coloured paper, 38.9 by 60.4 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).

Attributed works:

35. Study of an écorché greyhound, lateral view, by Edwin Landseer. c.1817–21. Black and red chalk and graphite heightened with white chalk on buff-coloured paper, 48.6 by 67.3 cm. (Private collection).

Attributed works:

36. Study of an écorché greyhound supported by planks, by Edwin Landseer. c.1817–21. Black, red and white chalk on brown paper, 30.7 by 49 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).

Attributed works:

37. Plate IV: Muscles, by John Bell. Illustration in J. Bell: Engravings, Explaining the Anatomy of the Bones, Muscles and Joints, Edinburgh 1794. (Wellcome Library, London).

Attributed works:

38. Finished study for the second anatomical table for ‘The Anatomy of the Horse’, by George Stubbs. c.1756–58. Pencil and black chalk, 36.5 by 49.5 cm. (Royal Academy of Arts, London).

Attributed works:

39. Study of an écorché horse’s head, by Edwin Landseer. 1817. Watercolour over graphite heightened with touches of bodycolour on grey paper, 30.5 by 40 cm. (Private collection).

Attributed works:

40. Study of an écorché dog’s head, by Edwin Landseer. 1821. Black and red chalk and graphite heightened with white chalk on buff-coloured paper, 29.7 by 44.2 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).

Attributed works:

41. Study of an écorché horse’s head, seen from the side, by Edwin Landseer. c.1817–21. Black and red chalk heightened with white chalk on buff-coloured paper, 31.5 by 51.2 cm. (Private collection).

Attributed works:

42. Study of an écorché horse’s head, seen from the side, by Benjamin Robert Haydon. 1806. Black, red and white chalk on brown paper, 30.5 by 47 cm. (Royal Academy of Arts, London).

Attributed works:

43. Study of the head and shoulders of an écorché wild cat, by Edwin Landseer. c.1817–21. Black, red and white chalk and graphite on buff-coloured paper, 37.5 by 53.4 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).

Attributed works:

44. Drawing of a wolf’s head, by John Frederick Lewis. c.1821–22. Black, red and white chalk on brown paper, 33.7 by 27.2 cm. (British Museum, London).

Attributed works:

45. Study of an écorché horse’s head, seen from the front (a sketch of a lion and the torso of a youth in graphite on the verso), by Edwin Landseer. c.1817–21. Black, red and white chalk on buff-coloured paper, 50 by 31 cm. (Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Indiana).

Attributed works:

46. Study of an écorché horse’s head, seen from the front, here attributed to Edwin Landseer. c.1817–21. Black, red and white chalk over graphite on grey paper, 56.8 by 38.7 cm. (With W/S Fine Art Ltd., London).

Attributed works:

47. Study of an écorché greyhound with enlarged detail of a paw, by Edwin Landseer. c.1817–21. Black, red and white chalk and graphite on buff-coloured paper, 44.2 by 58.8 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).

Attributed works:

48. Three studies of the hind leg of an écorché dog, here attributed to Edwin Landseer. c.1817–21. Black, red and white chalk on grey paper, 37.8 by 54.3 cm. (With W/S Fine Art Ltd., London).

Attributed works:

49. Study of an écorché greyhound’s head, by Edwin Landseer. c.1817–21. Black, red and white chalk on buff-coloured paper, 26.6 by 33 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).

Attributed works:

50. Study of an écorché wild cat, lateral view, by Edwin Landseer. 1817. Black, red and white chalk and graphite on buff-coloured paper, 30.2 by 48.8 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).

Attributed works:

51. Study of the foreleg of an écorché dog, by Edwin Landseer. 1821. Black, red and white chalk and graphite on buff-coloured paper, 29 by 45 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).

Exhibition Review

George Stubbs. Welbeck

02/2009 | 1271 | 151

Pages: 115-116

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Reviewer:

Belsey, Hugh (Belsey, Hugh)

Subjects

artists:

Stubbs, George

dates:

2000-2009

places:

England

places:

Welbeck

print:

Stubbs, George

private galleries:

Harley Gallery, Welbeck, Great Britain

subjects:

Reviews / Exhibitions / Horses (animals) / Landscapes (visual works)

subjects:

Collections, Private

Reviewed Items

subjects:

Horses and Landscape: George Stubbs at Welbeck | institution: Harley Gallery

Illustrations

Attributed works:

41. Five manege horses owned by William Cavendish, by a. Sijmon. c.1665. Canvas, 76.2 by 89.5 cm. (Private Collection; exh. Harley Gallery, Welbeck)

Attributed works:

43. William Henry, 3rd Duke of Portland, riding out beside the Riding House at Welbeck Abbey, by George Stubbs. Exh.1767. Canvas, 99 by 124 cm. (Private Collection; exh. Harley Gallery, Welbeck)

Western art unattributed:

42. Manege horse in a craggy landscape, British, c.1625. Canvas, 160 by 183 cm. (Private Collection; exh. Harley Gallery, Welbeck)

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