Wild Horses Fighting
Artist
Hans Baldung Grien
(German, 1484/1485 - 1545)
Date1534
MediumWoodcut
DimensionsImage: 8 5/16 × 12 1/2 inches (21.11 × 31.75 cm)
Mat: 16 × 21 1/4 inches (40.64 × 53.98 cm)
Mat: 16 × 21 1/4 inches (40.64 × 53.98 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number33-1641
Signed(bl.,l.r.):"BALDUNG/ 1534" (on tablet)
InscribedInscribed on verso in graphite pencil: "lower left corner restored JHB"
MarkingsRound stamp on verso in black ink: [crown above a shield reading] "GR. BD. KUPERSTICH Kabinet"
Stamp on verso in green ink: [eagle surmounted by a crown]
Oval stamp on verso, right, brown ink: [Nelson Gallery]
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Gallery LabelHans Baldung Grien, Dürer’s most talented and successful disciple, enjoyed lasting fame for his unusual approach to traditional subject matter. This woodcut is one of three prints depicting the mating behavior of a herd of horses in a dense forest. Seven stallions with bulging eyes and bared teeth form a tangle of limbs as they bite, kick, and tear at one another. Their frenzied violence served as a metaphor for the power of unbridled human passions.
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