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Groom Bridling a Horse
Hans Baldung (Grien) (German, 1484 or 1485–1545)
about 1510–12
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Platemark: 33 x 21.4 cm (13 x 8 7/16 in.)
Sheet: 33.7 x 21.1 cm (13 1/4 x 8 5/16 in.)
Sheet: 33.7 x 21.1 cm (13 1/4 x 8 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Samuel Putnam Avery Fund and Special Print Funds
Accession Number33.553
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch 002; Curjel 3; Hollstein 7; Mende 548; Yale 34
DescriptionIn this, the most ambitious of Baldung's few engravings, certain motifs in the composition derive from Dürer but Baldung's vocabulary of engraved lines is distinctly personal.
ProvenanceMay 22, 1933, C. G. Boerner sale, Leipzig, lot 37; purchased from that sale by the MFA. (Accession Date: July 20, 1933)