Thursday, June 20, 2024

Jan Victors - horses, boots and donkeys

 Salvete Omnes,

groom and the bay or buckskin horse with a docked tail


again we visit the Dutch Golden Age paintings - this time it will be the canvasses of Jan Victors (1619-1679) and equine related detail from his art

From a painting In front of a tavern - from the National Museum in Warsaw, Poland.

a gentleman cavalier astride a black horse 

resting cavalier wearing riding boots while his rowel spurs are cleaned?

a typical cart horse and Dutch harness

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a ferry boat and a cavalier on a bay horse

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cart horses





donkeys with pack saddles - details from Victors' paintings



and a camel


and some Oriental or Orientalising riding boots - perhaps also Polish, Hungarian, Ottoman Turkish etc









and a great looking Turkish?  or Persian ? carpet


Valete



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