Costume Design for Pages or Squirs Tending to the Horses

Costume Design for Pages or Squirs Tending to the Horses

Baccio del Bianco

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Design for a costume meant for servants taking care of the horses. Depicted is a man in a costume which is characterized by an overall twirling red band. He wears a hat with large feathers reaching up to the top of the page. In his right hand he holds a whip. The colors of the costume are indicated as black and white.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Department’s vast collection of works on paper comprises approximately 21,000 drawings, 1.2 million prints, and 12,000 illustrated books created in Europe and the Americas from about 1400 to the present day. Since its foundation in 1916, the Department has been committed to collecting a wide range of works on paper, which includes both pieces that are incredibly rare and lauded for their aesthetic appeal, as well as material that is more popular, functional, and ephemeral. The broad scope of the department’s collecting encourages questions of connoisseurship as well as those pertaining to function and context, and demonstrates the vital role that prints, drawings, and illustrated books have played throughout history.