Walking Horse ""after Lysippus""

16th century (Renaissance)

20.5 cm 23.5 cm 9 cm

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This graceful, elegant creature is a small-scale copy of one of the four life-size walking horses on the facade of the Basilica of St. Mark in Venice. In the Renaissance, they were thought to have been cast by the great Greek sculptor Lysippus, and, therefore, reduced copies...

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Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1922-1930 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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