A Rider on a Rearing Horse

Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)

Fitzwilliam Museum

circa 1481

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.

• Medium: metalpoint reworked with pen & brown ink on pink-beige paper
• Dimensions: 11.4 x 11.9cm
• Art Fund Grant: £200000 ( Total: £1,508,475; Tax Remission)
• ArtFunded in: 1999
• Vendor: Trustees of Colonel Norman Colville

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.

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