Wild Horses

1804

Henry Bernard Chalon

Associated Names
Henry Bernard Chalon

Artist, British, 1770 - 1849

The image shows a landscape with two horses, one bending down and the other looking alert. The horizon is high with trees and hills in the distance. The composition has detailed brushstrokes capturing the horses and trees with fluid lines and light shading. The color scheme is black and gray, giving the drawing a classic black-and-white aesthetic. There are shrubs and grass in the foreground leading to the horses, with wooded hills in the background.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    crayon lithograph

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 23 × 32.1 cm (9 1/16 × 12 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1947.7.119

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Man 1962, no. 32

  • Series Title

    Specimens of Polyautography [1947.7.110-145]

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1967

  • What is an Original Print?, Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK, 1967.

1977

  • Paper in Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977, no. 119.

1988

  • Drawings on Stone: Early European Lithography, NGA, 1988.

Bibliography

1962

  • Man, Felix H. "Lithography in England (1801-1810)." In Prints, edited by Carl Zigrosser. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962: 116-130.

Wikidata ID

Q65073247

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