id:			149962
accession number:	1980.19
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1980.19
updated:		2024-03-26 01:59:45.366000

Death on Horseback Chasing a Flying Knight, 1631. Sebastian Vrancx (Flemish, 1573–1647). Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over traces of graphite; framing lines in brown ink (bottom edge); sheet: 20.1 x 26 cm (7 15/16 x 10 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1980.19

title:				Death on Horseback Chasing a Flying Knight
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creation date:			1631
creation date earliest:		1631
creation date latest:		1631
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creditline:			Dudley P. Allen Fund
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culture:	Flanders
technique:	pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over traces of graphite; framing lines in brown ink (bottom edge)
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - Flemish
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Sebastian Vrancx (Flemish, 1573–1647)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 20.1 x 26 cm (7 15/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
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	description:	two sheets (joined) of beige(1) laid paper, perimeter mounted (top and left edges) tipped on (lower edge, right edge not mounted) to beige(1) laid paper
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	inscription:	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

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1980
	opening date:   1981-06-24T04:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1980</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981).

	title:		Seventeenth Century Netherlandish Graphics
	opening date:   1982-04-27T04:00:00
	<i>Seventeenth Century Netherlandish Graphics</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 27-August 1, 1982).

	title:		National Schools of Style
	opening date:   1983-06-14T04:00:00
	<i>National Schools of Style</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 14-September 18, 1983).

	title:		Netherlandish Drawings from the Permanent Collection
	opening date:   1989-10-10T04:00:00
	<i>Netherlandish Drawings from the Permanent Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 10-December 31, 1989).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Serge Philipson
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	Serge Philipson (according to departmental cataloguing sheet (not in Lugt)); [Remiel M. Howitt, London (according to departmental cataloguing sheet]]
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RELATED WORKS

	id: 		168202
	Death on Horseback Chasing a Flying Knight, 1644. Hendrick Hondius (Dutch, 1573–1650), after Sebastian Vrancx (Flemish, 1573–1647). Etching and engraving; sheet: 25.4 x 35.7 cm (10 x 14 1/16 in.); image: 23.4 x 35.2 cm (9 3/16 x 13 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Anne Elizabeth Wilson Memorial Fund 2009.89
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