Statuette pacing horse

Horses like this, based on the famed antique Horses of San Marco, were extremely popular, as were classical examples. Nonetheless, the collector Fra Sabba di Castiglione ridiculed ‘the man who spends five hundred ducats on a silly little antique horse of bronze, which not only cannot carry him, but is itself a load to carry’.

The statuette depends directly from the southernmost of the Horses of San Marco. Several horses of this type exist. The present bronze is the finest, and reproduces uniquely the blocked mane of the Horses of San Marco. A small hole in either flank seems to indicate that it may at one time have borne a rider.

Sulla scultura

Scheda

Nella stessa sala · Medieval & Renaissance, Room 64, The Wolfson Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum

Sullo stesso tema · Equus ferus caballus

Sì, riceve visite

Che cosa raffigura

In catalogo

Fonti

Paris

Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot)

Satyr

Emperor Antoninus Pius

Hercules and the Nemean Lion

Venus

Hercules and the Serpents

Hercules and Antaeus

3D replica of Michelangelo's Prisoner (4117-1854), 2024

Head of a bearded man, ca. 1550-1560

Romulus and Remus taken from their mother Rhea Sylvia, ca. 1532-1535

Relief depicting two warriors shooting at the sun, ca. 1531-1532

Relief depicting a Procession towards a contest, ca.1531-1532

Agony in the Garden, ca. 1530-1535

The Fall, ca. 1530-1535

The Judgement of Paris, ca. 1530

Cavalier allant au galop, tête de cheval de profil, cheval vu par la croupe, Vers 1481/1493

Deux cavaliers combattant un dragon, deux chevaux, un cavalier, un chien et un cheval, Vers 1481/1483

Horse, 1886

Horse Chestnut Tree in Blossom, 1887

Dream and Lie of Franco II, 1937

The Watering Place (Horses Bathing) [L'abreuvoir (chevaux au bain)], 1906

Sculptor and Model with a Sculpture Representing a Bull Attacking Horses (Sculpteur et son modèle avec un groupe sculpté représentant un taureau attaquant des chevaux), 1933

At the Circus (Au cirque), 1905, published 1913