Minneapolis Institute of Art

Two Horsemen Fighting

Pieter van Laer

Date

17th century

Medium

Etching

Department

European Art

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Peter van Laer was active in Rome and nicknamed Il Bamboccio or clumsy doll due to his unusual build. Van Laer invented a popular new artistic genre—bambocciata—representing, on a small scale, lowlife scenes set in taverns and on the street of soldiers and blacksmiths fighting or playing cards. Van Laer had many followers in Italy and his prints, of which Two Fighting Horseman is representative, are relatively rare. Netherlands, Europe

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