A Traveler and His Pack Horse Walking Along a Sandy Path Beside a Stream, a Rickety Wooden Bridge in the Distance by Esaias van de Velde
Dutch, 1629
oil on oak panel
private collection
Source: sothebys.com
Double-sided glazed earthenware plaque with female nude by Henri Cros
French, 1897
private collection
Source: sothebys.com
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‘Pegasus’ (1820′s) by Carle Vernet (French, 1758–1836).
Crayon lithograph. Printed by François Séraphin Delpech.
Image and text information courtesy MFA Boston.
Source: collections.mfa.org
Head of a horse
Greek (probably from Attica), Archaic Period, c. 515 B.C.
marble
Museo del Prado
Source: museodelprado.es
Votive offering, showing two mounted horsemen, possibly the Dioscuri, Castor and Polydeuces
Greek, 399-300 B.C.
marble
British Museum
Source: britishmuseum.org
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Horsea? Neigh.
Horse Key? Yay!
In Ancient Rome, heads of horses, as well as lions, panthers, and bears, were frequently used as key handles…must’ve been hard to lose.
Statuette of horse with incised mane
Arcadia, Greece, c. 750-725 B.C.
bronze
Walters Art Museum
Source: art.thewalters.org
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Horse Head “The Medici Riccardi Horse” about 350 B.C. bronze and gold Museo Archeologico Nazionale Firenze (Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Toscana) getty.edu
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Horses of Saint Mark - ancient Roman statues looted from Constantinople in 1204 during the Fourth Crusade. Looted from Venice by Napoleon in 1797, returned to Venice after the battle of Waterloo. 4th century BC
Black-figure Panathenaic prize amphora with the goddess Athena (top) and a horse race (bottom), attributed to the Leagros Group
Attic Greece, c. 510 B.C.
terracotta
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Source: metmuseum.org
Horse pendant
Greek, 3rd-1st century B.C.
gold
Walters Art Museum
Source: art.thewalters.org
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Horse head, gilded silver, 4th century AD, Sassanid art. Found in Kerman, Iran.
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Thracian winged horse from Bulgaria, 4th century BCE
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Etruscan Bronze Figure of a Horse Standing Upon an Integral Plinth. Late Archaic, Late 6th/Early 5th century B.C.E. Most probably from Vulci
Head of a horse
Greek, Hellenistic Period, 3rd-2nd century B.C.
Found at Sardis in present-day Turkey
marble
Walters Art Museum
Source: art.thewalters.org
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Persian cast stone horse, a reproduction of one excavated from Persepolis, ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire, or First Persian Empire (550-330 BCE)
Source: ancientsculpturegallery.com
Head of a horse of Selene from the east pediment of the Parthenon
Acropolis, Athens, c. 438-432 B.C.
marble
The British Museum
Source: britishmuseum.org