Sunday, January 16, 2011

Baroque painting - Philips Wouwerman continued


Salve,
 I decided to add some details from his paintings showing tack and horse related activity, i.e., farrier at work.


...here we have a scene of a blacksmith or farrier shoeing a grey horse,w while his assistant is working on a bay horse mouth. Note beautiful red leather saddle, not unlike Latin American and US cowboy horned saddles, on the grey horse, his rather small stature, and curb-bit with long shanks (partially obscured by a holding cavalier's hand)...

In this fragment of a multi-horse scene, we can see a nice 'gentling' saddle on a pinto horse, being trained in a rather large stable setting full of horses, goats, kids, dogs, and hens and roster (not shown here)
Here we have a scene of two soldiers vising a Gypsy, with know results of losing some money to the 'soothsayer'
Again we have a 3/4 view of a grey's red saddle, his long-shanked curb-bit and long stirrups.

*top image also shows a red saddle, perhaps in fashion amongst the soldiers?

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Please note that in these and other paintings we see no black Frisians, and this painter painted mostly Dutch and Northern European horses of his day....

1 comment:

martin walls equine dental said...

These Paintings are beautiful and very interesting,especially for me because i work as a equine dental technician.

thank you

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