Battle Scene. 마우리츠하위스(Mauritshuis). 덴하그(Den Haag, 헤이그:Hague)

Battle Scene. 마우리츠하위스(Mauritshuis).

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

Philips Wouwerman

Battle Scene

c. 1655 - 1660

Wouwerman was the leading horse painter of the seventeenth century, and painted mainly hunting scenes and landscapes with horsemen. This battle scene is his largest painting. The horses, cavalrymen and infantry form an almost inextricable tangle. only the rider in the red jacket on the white horse really stands out.

 

In the eighteenth century, Wouwerman’s paintings were in great demand from the European elite. Stadholder Prince Willem V of Orange had no fewer than nine of them – they now form part of the collection of the Mauritshuis.

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