Currently not on view
Lion attacking a horse,
16th century
Italian
x1953-88
Information
Title
Lion attacking a horse
Dates
16th century
Medium
Pen, brown ink and brown wash heightened with white on brown prepared paper
Dimensions
22.2 x 18.8 cm (8 3/4 x 7 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Frank Jewett Mather Jr.
Object Number
x1953-88
Inscription
Bottom center: "In Capitolio"
Culture
Materials
Poynter sale April 1918, no. 150 (according to old mat note); gift of Frank Jewett Mather, Jr., but not stamped with his mark
- "Acquisitions," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 13, no. 2, (1954): p. 62-63., p. 62
- H. Stuart Jones, A catalogue of the ancient sculptures preserved in the municipal collections of Rome, (Roma: Erma di Bretschneider, 1968). , Part 2: p. 249; no. 100; pl. 96
- Felton Gibbons, Catalogue of Italian Drawings in The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977)., Vol. 1: p. 198, no. 637 (illustrated in Vol. 2 under the same catalog number)
- Glorious horsemen: equestrian art in Europe, 1500-1800: Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts, September 27 - November 29, 1981, the J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, January 11-February 28, 1982, (Springfield, MA: Museum of Fine Art, 1981). , p. 13; cat. no. 7 (illus.)
- Phyllis Pray Bober, Ruth Rubinstein and Susan Woodford, Renaissance artists and antique sculpture: a handbook of sources, (London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 1986)., no. 76
