In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
In this watercolor by Georges Rouault, an armored knight on horseback strides forward to trample a few vanquished antagonists. The circular shape, black outlines, and profile figures complement the medieval subject by evoking a stained-glass roundel in a Gothic window. In 1925 the work was reproduced in the periodical Das Kunstblatt to accompany a poem written by Rouault in archaizing French. The poem describes a spiritual journey invoking art from ancient Egypt to the French impressionist Camille Corot as well as religious figures such as Christ and Joan of Arc.
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Raoul Dufy — Le cavalier
Franz Marc — Red deer and yellow antelope
Eugène Delacroix — The Giaour on Horseback (recto); Study of
Franz Marc — The Riding School
August Macke — Don Quichotte
Edvard Munch — Workers in Snow: Fragment
Franz Marc — Black Cow behind Tree
Amedeo Modigliani — Pink Nude—Caryatid (recto); Caryatid (ve
Wassily Kandinsky — Study for Impression IV (Policeman)
Franz Marc — The blue foals
Hugh Mesibov — Byzantine Figure
Jules Pascin — Father, Mother, and Three Children
