Original artwork description:

"The horse with the Conch dog " ( Le cheval de Conque ) is an acrylic painting on cotton canvas stretched over wood.
Part of the Medieval Bestiary series, it depicts a proud, low-legged blue horse accompanied by a sort of zany dog emerging from a strange, flower-tipped conch vine...
The Medieval bestiary series is inspired by the art of the late Middle Ages, which saw the flourishing of illuminated manuscripts dating from the 13th and 14th centuries, sometimes illustrated with incredible chimeras with rather coarse but expressive features, such as the British Luttrell Psalter (1320-1340). These particularly zany drolleries have given rise to this series, which recreates in the style and hues of the period, invented or reworked drolleries, on gilded or coppered backgrounds adorned with friezes and imagined on the principle of the cartoons of the upholsterers of yesteryear, flower motifs or styles repeated here and there to furnish the picture.

Painting dimensions H 45.5 x W 54.5 x D 1.5 cm

Materials used:

cotton canvas on wood, acrylic paint

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