Eight Horsemen Crossing a River
- Date
- 1542
- Material
- Etching
- Classification
- Prints
- Collection
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- image (irregular): 10 1/8 x 16 1/4 in. (25.7 x 41.3 cm)
sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 10 1/8 x 16 1/4 in. (25.7 x 41.3 cm) - Credit Line
- The Sidney S. and Sadie Cohen Print Purchase Fund
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 27:2001
NOTES
Fanciful helmets, elaborately appointed costumes, and angled limbs enliven this procession of Roman soldiers fording a river. The print encapsulates the taste for densely packed compositions and complicated poses popular at the French court in Fontainebleau.
Provenance
- 1990
Private Collection
1990 - 2001
Paul Prouté, Paris, France, purchased from private collection at auction at Sotheby's, London, June 26, 1990, lot no.10 [1]
2001 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from Paul Prouté [2]
Notes:
[1] According to the auction catalog, the work was in a private collection at the time of the sale. The name of the collection is not provided. The sale, "Old Master Prints: A Private Collection," took place on June 26, 1990, lot no.10. See auction catalog [Sotheby's London, "Old Master Prints: A Private Collection," June 26, 1990, lots 1-58].
[2] Invoice dated December 6, 2000 [SLAM document files] and the Minutes of the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Musem, March 1, 2001.
Private Collection
1990 - 2001
Paul Prouté, Paris, France, purchased from private collection at auction at Sotheby's, London, June 26, 1990, lot no.10 [1]
2001 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from Paul Prouté [2]
Notes:
[1] According to the auction catalog, the work was in a private collection at the time of the sale. The name of the collection is not provided. The sale, "Old Master Prints: A Private Collection," took place on June 26, 1990, lot no.10. See auction catalog [Sotheby's London, "Old Master Prints: A Private Collection," June 26, 1990, lots 1-58].
[2] Invoice dated December 6, 2000 [SLAM document files] and the Minutes of the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Musem, March 1, 2001.
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