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Collections

Jerome (Hieronymus) Wierix
The Sicilian Horse (Siculus)circa 1578

Not on view
Engraving of a muscular horse in three-quarter view, one foreleg raised, with fine cross-hatched lines, Latin text below, and a distant cityscape

Jerome (Hieronymus) Wierix, The Sicilian Horse (Siculus), circa 1578, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Mary Stansbury Ruiz Bequest, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Jerome (Hieronymus) Wierix
Title
The Sicilian Horse (Siculus)
Place Made
Flanders
Date Made
circa 1578
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 7 7/8 × 10 1/2 in. (20 × 26.67 cm) Image: 7 3/4 × 10 1/2 in. (19.69 × 26.67 cm)
Credit Line
Mary Stansbury Ruiz Bequest
Accession Number
M.88.91.387
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Prints and Drawings
Selected Bibliography
  • Mauquoy-Hendrickx, Marie. Les Estampes des Wierix. Brussels: Bibliothèque royale Albert Ier, 1978.