© Fitzwilliam Museum
A Rider on a Rearing Horse
Artist: Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
Location: Fitzwilliam Museum
Date: circa 1481
Materials: metalpoint reworked with pen & brown ink on pink-beige paper
Dimensions: 11.4 x 11.9cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £200,000 (Total: £1,508,475; tax remission)
Vendor: Trustees of Colonel Norman Colville
Review number: 4684 (1999)
Provenance:
Sir Peter Lely; 8th(?) Earl of Pembroke and thence by descent; Sotheby's 1917; Henry Oppenheimer; Christie's 1936; bought by Colnaghi for Captain Norman Colville.
Description:
Depicts a profile view of a rearing horse with a seated rider. Probably a study for a rearing horseman who appears in the background of the painting 'Adoration of the Magi' now in the Uffizi, Florence. His abstracted and dreamlike gaze contrast with the dynamism of the action in the finished work.
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