Death on Horseback Chasing a Flying Knight

1631

Sebastian Vrancx

Sebastian Vrancx (Flemish, 1573–1647)

Drawings

Death on Horseback Chasing a Flying Knight, 1631. Sebastian Vrancx (Flemish, 1573–1647). Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over traces of graphite; framing lines in brown ink (bottom edge); sheet: 20.1 x 26 cm (7 15/16 x 10 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1980.19

Original Source

Maker/Artist: Vrancx, Sebastian
Classification: Drawing
Formatted Medium: pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over traces of graphite; framing lines in brown ink (bottom edge)
Medium: pen, brown, ink, brush, wash, over, traces, graphite, framing, lines, bottom, edge
Dimensions: Sheet: 20.1 x 26 cm (7 15/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
Inscribed: Inscription: signed, lower center, in brown ink: [artist's monogram: SV] ; by artist, lower right, in brown ink: @ 1631 ; upper center, in brown ink: Geen man soo cloeck, nooch dier soo snel / De doot en Achter-haelt hun wel, [= No man [is] so clever, nor animal so swift/ Death overtakes them all] ; VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, upper center, in graphite: Bought at Vienna / 1817 ; center, in graphite: Sebastian Vrancx ; lower right, in graphite: 10 1/8 x 12 3/8 / 15 5/8 x 17 3/8
Departments: Drawings
Accession Number: 1980.19
Credit Line: Dudley P. Allen Fund
Exhibitions: Year in Review: 1980, Seventeenth Century Netherlandish Graphics, National Schools of Style, Netherlandish Drawings from the Permanent Collection
Rights Statement: CC0