Horse (1630s or later): Art, History and Details

Horse (1630s or later) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Francesco Fanelli (Italian, 1661).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Shortly after its acquisition, this work was published as a model for an equestrian monument of Emperor Maximilian by Gregor Erhart, cast by one of Maximilian's bronze founders in Augsburg. Recent scholars have questioned the connection to Erhart and have placed it closer to Fanelli, due to the rendering of the horse's head and the waxy overall feel of the modeling. Related works in Braunschweig and (formerly) Berlin already carry attributions to a Fanelli model.

Object facts

• Title: Horse
• Date: 1630s or later
• Creator attribution: Francesco Fanelli (Italian, 1661)
• Culture: Germany
• Type: Sculpture
• Technique: bronze
• Dimensions: Overall: 15.2 x 15.9 x 5.5 cm (6 x 6 1/4 x 2 3/16 in.)
• Collection: Sculpture
• Department: European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1952.108

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Milliken, William. "Bronze by Gregor Erhart." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 39, no. 9 (November 1952): 225-226.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.

View the collection record

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