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Death on Horseback Chasing a Flying Knight
1644 · etching and engraving
Sheet: 25.4 x 35.7 cm (10 x 14 1/16 in.); Image: 23.4 x 35.2 cm (9 3/16 x 13 7/8 in.)
Cleveland Museum of Art

Sebastiaen Vrancx was a Flemish Baroque painter, draughtsman and designer of prints who is mainly known for his battle scenes, a genre that he pioneered in Netherlandish painting. He also created landscapes with mythological and allegorical scenes, scenes with robbers, village scenes and celebrations in cities. He was a gifted figure painter who was regularly invited to paint the staffage in compositions of fellow painters. As an active member of a local chamber of rhetoric, he wrote comedies and a number of poems. He was further captain of the Antwerp schutterij.
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