Peter Vischer the Younger

German, 1487 - 1528

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Peter Vischer the Younger, Warrior in Renaissance Armor on a Rearing Horse, c. 1530/1540, pen and black ink on brown laid paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1990.79.1

Warrior in Renaissance Armor on a Rearing Horse

Peter Vischer the Younger · c. 1530/1540 · pen and black ink on brown laid paper ·  Accession ID  1990.79.1

A man and woman, both nude, stand on a rocky ground in this vertical, rectangular bronze plaque. The woman is to our left. She stands with most of her weight on her left foot, to our right and closer to the man. She holds fluttering drapery down by her side with her right hand, to our left, and lifts the other, palm up, toward the man. Her head tips to our right and a breeze lifts her long hair as she looks at the man. She stands in front of a rocky cliff face that fills the left third of the composition. To our right, the man stands with his body angled slightly in that direction. He is muscular and has short hair. He holds a violin-like instrument by the neck and facing out from his body, down in front of one hip. He looks over one shoulder at the woman. A hole pierces the top center of the plaque, and a symbol cast in the top right corner shows two back-to-back crescent-shaped fish pierced by a dagger.
Peter Vischer the Younger, Orpheus and Eurydice, c. 1515, bronze//Black lacquer (slightly rubbed on raised areas) over medium brown bronze, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1957.14.565

Orpheus and Eurydice

Peter Vischer the Younger · c. 1515 · bronze//Black lacquer (slightly rubbed on raised areas) over medium brown bronze ·  Accession ID  1957.14.565