Death on Horseback Chasing a Flying Knight

Sebastiaen Vrancx1631

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Title: Death on Horseback Chasing a Flying Knight
Creator: Sebastian Vrancx (Flemish, 1573-1647)
Date Created: 1631
Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 20.1 x 26 cm (7 15/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
Provenance: Serge Philipson, Serge Philipson (according to departmental cataloguing sheet (not in Lugt)); [Remiel M. Howitt, London (according to departmental cataloguing sheet]]
Type: Drawing
Rights: CC0
External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1980.19
Medium: pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over traces of graphite; framing lines in brown ink (bottom edge)
Inscriptions: 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
Department: Drawings
Culture: Flanders, 17th century
Credit Line: Dudley P. Allen Fund
Collection: DR - Flemish
Accession Number: 1980.19

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