Esaias van de Velde - ambuscades & attacks

 Salvete  Omnes,

a short entry - Esaias van de Velde (1587-1630AD) - already  I posted one entry on maestro Esaias's drawings last year.

So perhaps a few of his works showing his paintings depicting ambuscades and attacks on the travelers etc in the countryside (he was a master of landscape painting).

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. some details from Esaias van de Velde's paintings 

Valete

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

Horses and wagons - Pieter de Neyn

 Salvete Omnes,

today a quick posting from the first half of the XVII century Holland.

we can study some paintings by Pieter de Neyn (1597-1639) in search of horses and wagons - 
first some military topic - cavalry and their horses, there are wagons in the background

more soldiers in this war painting - a siege

.Palfrey and  two working or draft horses 

.from the Art Institute of Chicago - travelers 

.Christies

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a painting with a wagon carriage and some mounted travelers?

Valete

Summer is ending with .. Abraham van Calraet horses

 Salvete Omnes,

so our 2023 summer is ending - c'est la vie.
how are your horse things these days - I try going to the stables often, and enjoy the summer-sleek horses prancing in green meadows etc.

ad rem, a quick entry -
 I have been looking at some paintings by Abraham van Calraet -  a Dutch painter living during the Age of Opulence in Low Countries (always like that book by Simon Schama - The Embarrassment of Riches - some more detailed infor on the book here )

So these saddles are quite interesting - 

from the traditional large one -  look at that Paint 

 to a version, in leather most likely   - with nice -:)  grey horses 

to more peculiar saddles , some quite flat almost in the English saddle fashion - starting with this palomino steed 

these spotted horses - 

do enjoy these beautiful horses and their riders etc 

Valete