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TEXT BY DANIELA LIUCCI Carl Constantin Steffeck, Abdul Medschid,
The Chestnut Arab Horse, 1855, oil on canvas

HORSES

AND
ASTIC

ANT

WHERE TO FIND THEM

“ When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk; he trots the

air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn

of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.”

In the presence of a horse, many human beings feel

exactly like The Dauphin, the son of King Charles

of France, from Shakespeare’s Henry V: bold, strong,
F free, intoxicated by the calming power the animal

infuses on anyone who rides it

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