Joseph Parrocel et al - French Ladies on horseback

Salvete Omnes,
1st post this very first day of October. Let us hope for a good month, although our world is in turmoil and will grow more so, I think.
via Wiki Commons, we can enjoy the exquisite equestrian paintings of the French XVII century painter - Joseph Parrocel.
 The already known to us Swedish Skokloster Castle contains in their collection the series of 6 XVII century equestrian paintings  - as wiki Commons states:

[...] all depicting 

Ladies of the French high court on horseback with similar landscape views in the 

background painted for Louis Marie Victoire, Duc d´Aumont. 

The paintings were given as a gift to or bought by the Swedish ambassador 

Count Nils Bielke during his stay in Paris 1679-82. 

The series were later transferred from Bielkes castle at Salsta 

to Skokloster Castle in 1756. All six paintings bear the 

inscription Pour Monseigr Le Duc Daumont on the back of the canvas.

 . Francoise Madeleine Claude Madame La Comtesse de Saint Geran,  born de Warignes

 

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 Marie-Anne de Bouillon f. Mancini

 

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 Catherine de Neuville d'Harcourt-Armagnac

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 Francoise-Angeligue de la Motte d´Houdancourt (daughter of Duke of Cardona)

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 also a daughter of Duke of Cardona  la Madame La Duchesse de la Ferte-Senneterre, Marie Isabelle Gabrielle Angelique de Lamotte-Houdancourt

 

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 Anne de Souvree, marquise de Louvois, wife to the minister of war of Louis XIV

 

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valete

Defilada 2018 - Winged Hussar Radoslaw Szleszynski via Marek Kalisinski

Salvete Omnes,
artist Marek Kalisinski has graciously allowed me to share with you several of his photos showing Radoslaw Szleszynski in his painstakingly reconstructed winged hussar armor and horse tack - all taken during the Polish Armed Forces Day in Warsaw 2018.
I wrote about this armor in my past posts and tack (check labels section), and Radek's efforts to reconstruct a winged hussar companion and his steed.

 The horse ridden in this parade comes from Alex Jarmula stables.
Valete!

Winged Hussar armor - a replica

Radek & Radek - Warsaw 2017

Salvete Omnes,
my friend and compatriot imc pan Radek Szleszynski (on Wiki there is his photo in full regalia of a winged hussar), co-author of the famous and unique art book Husaria Rzeczpospolitej, has announced a new winged hussar armor for himself, made by the Olsztyn-based armorer Sergey August.

Katerina Zhuravieva @copyright

Katerian Zhuravieva @copyright

Radek is himself a very talented artist (also a photographer) who works in leather, textiles, metal and semi-precious stones, and has been famously  reconstructing winged hussar horse tack, especially bridles etc, and pistol holsters of the XVII century period.

 

Radek Sikora @copyright

 
the armor reconstructed by Sergey August is a replica of the extant armor from the Skokloster Castle in Sweden,

original armor from Skokloster

The collection is part of the loot brought from Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth by Carl Gustaf Wrangel after the Deluge (1655-1660)

 

 
 




I do hope  that in this armor and in a painstakingly reconstructed horse tack (Radek's own) and saddle (made by Marcin Ruda and owned by Radoslaw Sikora, Ph.D. ) Radek will be leading the winged Hussars during the 2018 Parade in Warsaw on August 15, 2018. Note that I do not know at this time which horse Radek will be riding.
Valete!
ps
 all photos copyright Radoslaw Szleszynski unless noted

Skokloster Castle - XVII century collections

Salve,
last day of January - time flies, it will be spring soon :)
The Skokloster Castle, Sweden, was built by Carl Gustaf Wrangel, who was a skilled cavalry commander and later a politician, a governor of Swedish Pomerania, today divided between Poland and Federal Republic of German.

The collections at the castle are very fine and diverse, but they are very interesting when comes to horses, cavalry and Polish arms and armor captured by the Swedes during the wars with Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - so called Polonica.
The horse collection special exhibit is here (in large tiff files )- with great baroque saddles and horse tack, and portraits of ladies riding, and a model stable etc.

But there are also some Polish ones - saddles and bridles

also some examples of the winged hussar armor; some of the winged hussar armor suits seem to have been converted later on, or so the appear, with 1670s additions etc

beautiful anima armor

enjoy