Joseph Heicke - riders and horses

 Salvete  Omnes,

Maestro Joseph Heicke is another Austrian painter of this year... 

k.k. Hussar 

Austrian or Austo-Hungarian (Kaiser und Konig - k.k.) ulan (lancers) 

He was known for his equestrian works from the wider spectrum

self portrait

- Middle East (Orient), Hungarian lands of the Austrian Empire and Wallachian subjects.

lady riding side saddle

the Wallachians/Hungarians - costumes, cattle and horses

Oriente Lux - Arabs, Turks, Bedouins and their camels and horses 

enjoy

Valete

Francois Clouet - Royal horses and riders

 Salvete Omnes,
long time ago I posted this painting by Francois Clouet (1515-72) - a French master, who was skilled in water media as gouache and oil painting. 

Dauphin Henri II Valois (1519-1559), 1543AD - at Menil Collection, Texas

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monsieur Clouet painted several more paintings of French Valoise dynasts on horseback. 

First, the splendid Francis I (1497- died 1547) - oil on oak panel 

mounted on a splendid buckskin stallion, perhaps a Neapolitan horse?

Francois I was defeated at the battle of Pavia 1525, during the Italian wars

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then his portrait of Henri II on a Neapolitan stallion?

at Upton House, National Trust, UK

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this equestrian portrait of Henri II is housed at MET - NYC.  Attributed to Couet's workshop. - king, in a comfortable and rich riding attirle, appears as a very engaged rider, with a horse whip in hand, perhaps in a style of the Italian riding style of Grisone or Fiaschi. Perhaps there is more symbolism to this painting, as it differs from the three above that in those the dynasts are portrayed as  chivalrous knights in 3/4 armor  and masters of the realm.

canvas on wood panel later transferred to canvass. 

this  chestnut stallion appears also of a Neapolitan - spirited and showing off in a trot or even a passage?

Stallion's harness is splendid, perhaps silver or of metal textile while the saddle is perhaps of the cloth of gold - silk, gold and silver. The saddle has two cinches, woven in the same ornament pattern as the saddle,.

king Henri II died after getting eye-to-brain injury from a splinter hurled from a broken lance wielded by his opponent count de Montgomery of the Scottish Guard during a joust 10 days earlier.

enjoy

Valete

Splendid horses and aristocratic riders by Anselm van Hulle et al

 Salvete Omnes,

a nice May day -just  started listening to a new novel by C.J. Box - Storm Watch. 

Frederic Henry, prince of Orange

 

so on this nice May day let us enjoy some equestrian portraits showing members of the princes of Orange clan, attributed to Anselm van Hulle.

Amazing bays, one black and a paint horse.

Maurice of Nassau

Philip William , prince of Orange

Frederic Henry, prince of Orange

William II, prince of Orange

William the Silent

in the wiki commons gallery of this painter there are interesting portraits of the important men(and one woman) of this period

Among them two Polish or Hungarian looking costumed gentlemen 

 

 enjoy

Valete

Happy Easter - Passion, Jan van Eyck & horses

 Salvete Omnes,

 

Christos Anesti (Χριστός Ανέστη) - Christ has risen -  Alleluia - Christians unite against the evils of this world - Wesołego Alleluja

Chora church fresco

and with that happiness in the hindsight some Jan van Eyck's Passion themes

MET- Crucifixion and Last Judgement

 greatness of Jan van Eyck brushes 

Venice Crucifixion

and another beauty - from Budapest National Museum of Fine Arts, Hungary -   painted after van Eyck's work in the early XVI century

All the best, health and joy, and may peace return to Ethiopia, Ukraine and the Holy Land..

Valete

David Deevad Revoy - new 2023 bundle of brushes for Krita

 Salvete Omnes,

Jacques-Laurent Agasse - George Irving with his black hunter

 

perhaps my very shortest entry this far - namely,
I use Krita and enjoy this software digital painting program a lot.
French master of digital brushes monsieur David Revoy aka Deevad came up his newest digital brushes creation - first bundle for this 2023.

You can get it at David's website - merci David! 
On David's YT channel you can watch and practice along with David.

Enjoy and paint away -

 

Valete