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| Belisario Corenzio Battle Scene ca. 1600 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Anonymous Artist Figure on Horseback 17th century drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Peter Paul Rubens Studies of a Saddled Horse ca. 1615-18 drawing Albertina, Vienna |
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| Palma il Giovane Man leading a Horse ca. 1620-28 drawing British Museum |
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| attributed to Wouter Crabeth the Younger The Good Samaritan carrying the Wounded Man on his Horse ca. 1626-30 drawing British Museum |
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| Jacques Callot Study of a Horse before 1635 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Grazing Horses
Sometimes the
green pasture
of the mind
tilts abruptly.
The grazing horses
struggle crazily
for purchase
on the frictionless
nearly vertical
surface. Their
furniture-fine
legs buckle
on the incline,
unhorsed by slant
they weren't
designed to climb
and can't.
– Kay Ryan (1997)
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| Inigo Jones Plumed Saddle Horse ca. 1640 drawing Yale Center for British Art |
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| Pietro da Cortona Study for Castor and Pollux in Lunette ca. 1642-44 drawing Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Salvator Rosa Rider falling backwards from his Horse ca. 1645-46 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Domenico Maria Canuti Diana and Apollo slaying the Children of Niobe ca. 1650-80 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Jacopo Vignali Expulsion of Heliodorus before 1664 drawing British Museum |
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| Domenico Gargiulo Standing Man with Rearing Horse, and other Studies before 1675 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Francesco Allegrini Soldier on Horseback before 1679 drawing National Galleries of Scotland |
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| attributed to Flaminio Allegrini Study of Warriors on Horseback before 1684 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Lazzaro Baldi Conversion of St Paul late 17th century drawing British Museum |
All Your Horses
Say when rain
cannot make
you more wet
or a certain
thought can't
deepen and yet
you think it again:
you have lost
count. A larger
amount is
no longer a
larger amount.
There has been
a collapse; perhaps
in the night.
Like a rupture
in water (which
can't rupture
of course). All
your horses
broken out with
all your horses.
– Kay Ryan (2014)