Horses et riders etc - Abraham Bosse

 Salvete Omnes,

the wars, destruction and world economic tribulations & human misery seem to have no end.

So in order to bring a spark or two I corralled some equestrian images from the chisels of a French graphic artist Abraham Bosse (d.1676), active in his native French realm during the wars of his Bourbon kings: Louis XIII and the early wars of Louis XIV. In so many words this was the age of  the famous King's musketeer D'Artagnan and his chivalric companions: Atos, Portos and Aramis (after Dumas' novels) - :) . 

Ad rem, monsieur Bosse excelled in printmaking (etching) and also as a watercolorist. 

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2 pairs of carriage horses and a carriage with a seat for a driver

a spirited saddled horse and 2 mules in a background

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French armies under Louis the Just

enjoy

Valete