Landscape with the Taming of a Horse is a 1625 ink by Guercino, a Baroque work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows a man in old-fashioned clothes guiding a rearing horse with a long stick. In the background, another person leans on a tree, watching. The ground is rough, with a fallen log and a small figure crouching near it. The whole scene is drawn in brown ink with quick, sketchy lines. The horse’s wild movement is the focus—its muscles tense, mane flying. The artist used loose, fast strokes to show energy, not detail. The paper has a textured look, like old paper. Next, check out cross-hatching to see how artists build shadows with lines.
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (8 February 1591 – 22 December 1666), better known as (il) Guercino (Italian pronunciation: ), was an Italian Baroque painter and draftsman from Cento in the Emilia region, who was active in Rome and Bologna.
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