Author: Dirk Stoop (1610-c.1686)
Title: Antique print, etching | Man holding a horse by the bridle [1 of the set of 12 horses], published 1651, 1 p.
Description: A man with a walking stick and two dogs standing at left, holding a horse by the bridle, seen in profile to left, a horseman and a man with his dog approaching in right background; added etching in the sky; from a series of twelve prints showing horses.Signed on the bottom right: D. Stoop f.State II, no number on the bottom right corner.On verso collector's mark of Wilhelm Koller (-1871) [L. 2632].[NL] Een man houdt een paard bij de teugels. Naast hem twee honden. Rechts een ruiter en een wijzende man. Geëtst door Dirk Stoop (1610-c.1686). Etching on paper, trimmed close to plate mark, with some margin; total: 156 x 198 mm; state II/3; some staining on the top right margin, some smudges and traces of handling, overall in fair condition. Hollstein 6. Visible central watermark.

Keywords: Animals|Crafts|Farmers