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Death on Horseback Chasing a Flying Knight

1631

This object has related works. See Death on Horseback Chasing a Flying Knight

Sebastian Vrancx

(Flemish, 1573–1647)

Flanders, 17th century

Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over traces of graphite; framing lines in brown ink (bottom edge)

Support: Two sheets (joined) of beige(1) laid paper, perimeter mounted (top and left edges) tipped on (lower edge, right edge not mounted) to beige(1) laid paper

Sheet: 20.1 x 26 cm (7 15/16 x 10 1/4 in.)

Dudley P. Allen Fund 1980.19

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

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

Provenance
Serge Philipson
Serge Philipson (according to departmental cataloguing sheet (not in Lugt)); [Remiel M. Howitt, London (according to departmental cataloguing sheet]]
Exhibition history

Year in Review: 1980. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981).

Seventeenth Century Netherlandish Graphics. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 27-August 1, 1982).

National Schools of Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 14-September 18, 1983).

Netherlandish Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 10-December 31, 1989).

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