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Unknown Artist — Three Demons Holding a Knight (verso)

Unknown Artist

Three Demons Holding a Knight (verso)

1900

This pen and ink drawing depicts three demonic figures restraining or attacking a armored knight, rendered in the expressive linear style characteristic of Northern European art from the fifteenth or sixteenth century. The artist employs bold, gestural ink lines to define the grotesque features of the demons and the knight's plate armor, creating a dynamic composition full of movement and struggle. The work likely illustrates a scene from religious or allegorical literature, reflecting contemporary fascination with the supernatural and moral conflict between good and evil.

Medium
pen and black ink

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Unknown Artist, Three Demons Holding a Knight (verso), 1900

This pen and ink drawing depicts three demonic figures restraining or attacking a armored knight, rendered in the expressive linear style characteristic of Northern European art from the fifteenth or sixteenth century. The artist employs bold, gestural ink lines to define the grotesque features of the demons and the knight's plate armor, creating a dynamic composition full of movement and struggle. The work likely illustrates a scene from religious or allegorical literature, reflecting contemporary fascination with the supernatural and moral conflict between good and evil.

Medium
pen and black ink
Year
1900
Seen at
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Related themes

Knight, Unknown Artist, Dark And Ominous, Medieval, Manuscript verso, Gothic, Pen And Ink Drawing, Demonic figures, Northern European, 15th Century

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Cleveland Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago