Have a nice Sunday with J.G. Pforr's stallions

 Salvete Omnes,
 only 9 days to Christmas - heehaa 

enjoy your Sunday with some beautiful Pforr's horses - XVIII century the 'crème de la crème' of the breeding and riding in continental Europe 

presenting a stallion - perhaps a Spanish, Neapolitan or Lipizzaner? 

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grey stallion (English Thoroughbred?) in training,  a cavesson bridle 

mustachioed, bare-leged horseman riding bareback a chestnut horse

and a nice paint in the foreground

folded blanket as the saddle, snaffle bit 

enjoy your day 

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J.G. Pforr - more peasant horses & car-stake or stake-brace

 Salvete Omnes,

just for the beauty and enjoyment - works of Johann G. Pforr

the wagon images demonstrate  the use of car-stake or stake-brace*

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the car-stakes[1] seemed to have been an eastern European invention 

[1] lusnia[ luśnia ] in Polish - in Polish Wikipedia,  and  klonica[kłonica]  which holds the ladders in place - - see the description in  Polish Wikipedia. 
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and a horse market scene somewhere in Saxony? - 

* Laszlo Tarr, The History of the Carriage, New York, 1969, page 175  & two plates XLII & XLIII.

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J.G. Pforr - two stallions

 Salvete Omnes,

 just for the pleasure and beauty of it -  more J. G. Pforr's equestrian work in oils - two XVIII century stallions being presented:

first a palomino or dorado (izabelowaty in Polish) being presented during a horse market display

a XVIII century saddle with stirrups in the foreground

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glorious bay stallion

the groom is wearing a pari of Hungarian riding pants and boots with spurs . Oxen pull a cart in the background

enjoy

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J.G. Pforr - Falconry & hare hunt

 Salvete Omnes, 

a nice Johann Georg Pforr's painting - oil painted on walnut board.

very Wouwerman like

Falconry in action, however the costumes seem odd for 1780s in Central Europe.

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Roman nosed head of this grey, and interesting saddle, non-English I presume

a very popular docking of the tail - 

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. and two hunting falcons painted around the period or slightly alter

Icelandic gyrfalcon

a Falcon by Landseer

 

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J.G. Pforr - peasant and draft horses

 Salvete Omnes,

back to Pforr's fabulous drawings and paintings of  horses - 

there is lots of realism in this picture - these working horses have rope and collar burns and other work-related injuries

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and some closeups & details 

clearly visible withers -neck injury from collar 

all these plates are gouaches, inks and watercolor 

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J.G. Pforr - horse bolting? or attacking?

 Salvete Omnes,

a quick entry from the equestrian portfolio of Herr Pforr

splendid stallion 

one of the surviving Johann G. Phorr's paintings * shows a stable scene - 

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hay rack with draft horses? 

a horse collar and water buckets

English saddles?

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finally, Hungarian Hussar-style riding pants on this groom

*oil on oakwood panel 

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J.G. Pforr - various horse images 1

 Salvete omnes,

last day of this week and let us continue with the equestrian art by Johann G. Pforr - 

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J.G. Pforr - Danish horse

 Salvete Omnes,

a cream, grey or palomino? 

our maestro Johann G. Pforr drew and painted  with ink a plate with the Danish horses. Two stallions, one in training with with a cavesson bridle.

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this may be a bay stallion 

a short, of the 1700s period, description of these Danish horses

and a mastiff? in the background

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