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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Pforr's Russian Imperial horses

 Salvete omnes,

J.G. Pforr also painted, in ink, two horses of the Russian  Empire. 

the 1700s brought large scale horse breeding by various Russian, Coassack and tribal people of the Don and Volga steppe areas. The studs were organized and produced horses for the army and the state, especially under the long rule of  empress Yekaterina II (Catherine II ), whose armies conquered most of the Pontic and Volga steppes and  in Siberia etc. The nobility rode German, Dutch, Spanish, Polish, later English horses, as evidenced in these two portraits above.

Travelers from the West observed that Russian horses were accustomed to grazing all summer months, without the need for grain, when on campaign in the Pontic Steppe (and Russian and Ottoman empires clashed numerous times during the 1700s, while there were rebellions and uprising of the peasants and nomads of these steppes).

perhaps a Russian Cossack or a Kalmuck watering two horses, one bay and one palomino

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Tethart P. C. Haag & horses in brush and pencil

Salvete Omnes,

Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina, princess of Orange

let us trot to the empirical century aka the Age of Enlightenment and their horses as seen and painted by one Dutch artists - Tethart Philipp  Christian Haag (1737-1812), painter to the rich and famous of the era.

Willem or William of Orange, husband to Frederica Wilhelmina  

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                                                                                            Portraits of horses

English blood horse, a flat saddle with surcingle

Arabian horse

more military - 

Mr Haag's brushwork enjoys popularity at the auction block - eg  this painting below has been sold at Sotheby's 

another one was sold at Sotheby's - can be seen via  Invaluable auction portal.. 

a chestnut horse and a soldier - a detail from the above painting

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