Saint Martin with his Horse in a Ship
Johannes van Doetecum
1556–1566
- Medium
- Etching and engraving on paper
- Dimensions
- Plate: 34.4 × 43 cm (13 9/16 × 16 15/16 in.); sheet: 36 × 44.2 cm (14 3/16 × 17 7/16 in.)
- Genre
- engraving
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
engravingprintprints and drawingpaper (fiber product)
About
In Hieronymus Bosch’s antic vision of the world, appearances were often deceiving. Here Saint Martin’s pious act of dividing his cloak to clothe a naked beggar takes place within a chaotic panorama of beggars of all types—both those genuinely afflicted by deprivation and disease and mere charlatans.
