Country Homes Antiques Stirling has dated this Dutch Master Oil Painting to the 17th Century.
“Cavalry skirmish”
Philips Wouwerman was the son of a little known painter in Alkmaar, Paul Joosten Wouwerman. Philips died at the age of 48, has created a dazzling array of landscapes, battle scenes and, above all, the elegant life of his time, its setting, castles, parties, hunting, huntsmen and, most prized of all, horses.
With these horses, he created bright dreams, cavalcades, encampments, horse fairs, stables, smithies, an entire world. He may not have enjoyed these pleasures in actual fact, but he could do so through his paintings. When he was 19 he abducted a Catholic girl whom he married in Hamburg – a dashing start to an adult life which then became thoroughly tidy and bourgeois. He worked for Everard Decker in Hamburg, then in 1640 moved to Haarlem, where he was accepted into the guild of St Luke. He was a pupil of Wynants, and it was he who put the horses into Wynants’ landscapes. Many artists have painted horses, but none with such devotion, none who cared about the social life of the animal, so to speak. He painted as a technician but also as a poet. Harness, saddles, stirrups, every detail is accurate. He was perhaps the last chronicler of a dying civilization. Others painted the degenerate animal of ‘the turf’, but Wouwerman was the man who depicted the truth of a lost world.
Medium: Oil on relined canvas.
Size: c. 25 x 33 inches unframed / 31 x 39 framed
Condition: Relined c. 1900. Now Cleaned and ready to hang.
Museum and Gallery Holdings
Aix: The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds; Horses Led to Water (two works)
Ajaccio: Travelling
Amsterdam: Peasants Defending themselves against Soldiers; Peasants’ Victory; Camp (two works); White Horse Kicking Out; Two Landscapes; Deer Hunt; Riding School; Heron Hunt; Blacksmith; At the Drinking Place (two works); White Horse; Stable
Angers: Village Fête
Antwerp: Horsemen’s Halt; Halt; Hunt
Aschaffenburg: Horse; Horsemen before an Inn
Augsburg: Going Hawking; Halt during the Hunt
Bagnères-de-Bigorre: Halt
Basel: Horses and a Donkey; Landscape
Berlin: Manege; Hunters’ Halt by a River; Setting off for the Hunt; Horses before the Smithy; Winter Landscape; Cart Loaded with Hay; Dune Road
Bernay: Duel with Pistols
Besançon: Cavalry Encounter
Bonn: Camp Scene
Bourg: Skirmish between Cavalry and Infantry
Bremen: Dappled Horse before a Smithy
Brunswick: Ascension
Brussels: Setting off for the Hunt; Hunting Episode
Budapest: Manege; Bath
Caen: Blacksmith
Calais: Battle in 1620
Cambridge (Fitzwilliam Mus.): Landscape with a Sporting Party (oil/panel)
Chantilly: Cavalry Fighting
Château-Gontier: Lady on Horseback Visiting a Camp
Cheltenham (AG and Mus.): A Dutch Horse Fair (oil/panel)
Cologne: Halt at a Spring
Copenhagen: Hunting; Outside an Inn
Cracow: Cattle and Horses
Dijon: Leaving for the Hunt (two works); Returning from the Hunt; Encampment
Dresden: Landscape with Red-covered Carriage; White Horse before an Inn; Horseman outside a Peasant’s Hut; Carter at a Mountain Inn; Annunciation to the Shepherds; Lady on a White Horse; Returning from the Hunt; Hunting Roe Deer; White Horse in a Rocky Crevasse; St John the Baptist Preaching; Feeding the Poor in a Cloister; Horse Fair; Encampment by a River; Resting outside the Blacksmith’s House; Horses Crossing a River; Executioner’s House; Dune Landscape with a White Horse Drinking; Inn Stable; Horseman Embracing a Young Girl; Horsemen’s Halt outside a Mountain Smithy; Rider and Horse in an Inn Courtyard; Fighting in front of a Stronghold; Going Hawking; Mountainous Landscape with Wate
Country Homes Antiques Stirling has dated this Dutch Master Oil Painting to the 17th Century.
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A Large 17th Century Old Dutch Master Oil Painting “cavalry Skirmish” Philips Wouwerman
