La Femme au Cheval [SEP] material used
It is now in the Royal Collection of Paintings and Sculpture at the museum.
Description.
"La Femme au Cheval" is an oil painting on canvas with dimensions 162 x 130.5 cm (63.8 x 51.4 in). As the title indicates the painting represents a woman and a horse. The rather elegant woman wearing only a pearl necklace and the horse are immersed in a landscape with trees and a window (in the 'background'), a vase, with fruits and vegetation (in the 'foreground
La Femme au Cheval
La Femme au Cheval (also known as Woman with Horse, L'Écuyère and Kvinde med hest) is a large oil painting created toward the end of 1911, early 1912, by the French artist Jean Metzinger (1883–1956). The work was exhibited in Paris at the Salon des Indépendants (20 March–16 May) in 1912 and the Salon de la Section d'Or, 1912. The following year "La Femme au Cheval" was reproduced in "The Cubist Painters, Aesthetic Meditations" by Guillaume Apollinaire (