Equestrian Portrait of Pieter de Roovere (1602-1652). 마우리츠하위스(Mauritshuis). 덴하그(Den Haag, 헤이그:Hague)

Equestrian Portrait of Pieter de Roovere (1602-1652).

마우리츠하위스(Mauritshuis).

덴하그(Den Haag, 헤이그:Hague). 네덜란드(Netherland)

Aelbert Cuyp

Equestrian Portrait of Pieter de Roovere (1602-1652) 

c. 1650

Pieter de Roovere, Lord of Hardinxveld, is sitting high on his horse, pointing with his whip to the salmon the fisherman is showing him. In the background, his men are salmon fishing – the main source of income in the village of Hardinxveld. The sky is dark, but there is still a strip of golden sunlight to be seen on the horizon.

 

Cuyp, who worked in the neighbouring town of Dordrecht, chose a remarkably low vantage point here, making De Roovere tower above us and emphasising his impressive appearance.

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