Edgar Degas - some horse-themed art

 Salvete Omnes,

a short posting - horses of Edgar Degas I corralled for this post - 

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Horses in the Meadow

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there are plenty of article on maestro Degas' equestrian art 

eg - Metropolitan Museum - pastel on wood.

Harvard Museum - at the races.

Visual Arts site analysis - in front of the stand.

also  some sculptures - I may want to ask you whether  this is some great equestrian art? 

a bit of cynicism should be in place here - in the early 1920s Degas' heirs decided to make his sculptures more permanent (as the originals were sculpted form perishable materials), although Degas himself never favored making them so (as they appear but sketches & studies of fleeting mementos of his interests and artistic needs),   and authorized metal casting of his wax, clay and plastiline sculptures. They 'invented' the casting series, and 'limited' the number of castings to 21, while the very first series went to the most prominent collectors.

 I am sure all in the best  interest of humanity and history of art ( and wealthy  collectors). 

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Renoir, de Toulouse-Lautrec & Gaugin etc - horses

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Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec horse carriage

a short entry on this fresh Spring Day - nota bene Happy Nowruz to all.

ad rem,
some of the modern masters of painting who also painted some horse images within their works.

Pierre Auguste Renoir 

a short depiction of this rather splendid realistic artwork from Ronoir

Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec 

Gaugin - I used to stare at these two paintings a lot , especially at the Riders on the Beach. 

Camille Pissarro

Pablo Picasso

Boy leading the Horse page on Wikipedia 

Egar Degas, my favorite, will be saved  for another day

and as one of my fellow travelers suggested - Giorgio de Chricio should come too
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Joachim Murat - happy birthday

 Salvete Omnes,

yesterday but in 1767AD France's most dashing cavalry commander Joachim Murat, marshal of France and king of Naples, was born in France to his parents, Pierre and Jeanne nee Loubières. From one dashing raid or charge to another had gone the years of his own Napoleonic epic.
Trying to carve his own realm he had abandoned Napoleon and eventually Joachim Murat was shot by a firing squad in Calabria, Kingdom of Naples, in 1815AD.

I gathered some period and later historic imagery to recall  this dashing and flamboyant horseman's life and deeds. 

Ave, Murat.

battle at Abukir, 1799

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Murat was married to Caroline Bonaparte, also born on March 25,  and they had 4 children, and their family line still lives on in France and the US. His descendants included a horseman and  cavalry general Louis Napoléon Achille Charles Murat (his great-grandson, born to a Mingrelian princess and French father in 1872 and died 1943), who was an officer in the Russian Imperial army and fought against the Germans in World War I and later on the side of the White Russians against the Bolsheviks etc.

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Rugendas - Stanislaw August on horseback

 Salvete Omnes 

Bavarian artist Johann Lorenz Rugendas (1775-1826) executed a drawing that his workshop converted into a etching and printed- the National Museum at Krakow has the print, and graciously allows for study and enjoyment via their Digital Collections.  

The subject of this print is last elected king of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Stanislaw  August (Poniatowski), (s)elected in November 1764, with the strong Russian 'bayonet and musket' presence, This last election followed  the short war between the national, conservative Sarmatian faction and the Progressive faction with Russian Imperial army in the vanguard. The war was atrocious on many levels, showing the complete ruination of the Polish Crown army, while the Lithuanian army, under the command of grand hetman Massalski, was told to stand aside, in exchange for large sum of money given to the grand hetman, while Progressive-allied Russian Imperial army marched into the Kingdom. It was during that war when the castle of Neswiez, the seat of Radziwill family then headed by Karol Radziwil 'Panie Kochanku', was plundered of its fabulous art and riches collections for the first time by the Russians (second will be in 1812). Withing the Royal Crown army  only the Tatar Ulan regiments,  that had freshly marched from Saxony and the Seven Years War's fields, showed themselves capable of any military action and order, while very ancient Crown grand Hetman Branicki was beyond any help as a military commander and leader.

In my opinion (and many historians), this ruler was to be one of the worst politicians ever on the Polish throne, being weak, afraid of this former lover empress Catherine the Great of Russia,  and always pursuing pleasures of life while borrowing money for his expensive ideas and projects, especially art collections. 

Ad rem, the mount of the monarch is white or grey - with the usual horse tack of this period, the 1760s. 

behind the monarch there are two attendants in stylized Hungarian attire

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their horse also is bitted with a  double rein bridle, but the rosette in its forehead perhaps indicated both Polish and Hungarian bridle tradition. 

enjoy

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Jan Matejko & horses

 Salvete Omnes,

Jan Matejko's son on horseback

a short entry on text an rich in imagery .

Jan Matejko is one of the most preeminent Polish painters of all times. Famous for his historical paintings, and allegories in art and history, portrait paintings and numerous works on the history of costume and  architecture of his times - 1838-1893. 

horse details from his painting - Grunwald 1410

horses from his Jan III after the Victory at Vienna 1683

 horse studies

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horses from Kosciuszko at Raclawice 1794

. some of the  medieval  dukes of Kingdom of Poland on horseback

prince Boleslaw I the Tall

prince Boleslaw the Bold Rogatka

prince Trojden I of Masovia

and two very infamous personages in Polish history -   Bohdan Chmielnicki and Tuhay Bey

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