Artist: Leonardo Da Vinci
Date: 1478
Size: 11 x 19 cm
Museum: Royal Collection (London, United Kingdom)
Technique: Drawing
The horse studied in this sheet is similar to that in RCIN 912324, with long tufts of hair at the fetlocks, though the casual pose is replaced at lower left here by a formal pacing gait, both right legs advanced. At upper left are two more dynamic poses, in metalpoint only – a rearing horse with its rider thrusting a lance (possibly related to the dragons in RCIN 912370); and the outlines of a horse struggling to regain its feet, its head twisted backwards, the first appearance of what would become a favourite motif (cf. RCIN 912331, 912336, 912570). The paper is coated with a bright orange preparation composed mainly of red lead. Melzi
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