Gustave Coubert - horses and dogs

 Salvete Omnes,

Spring is in full swing - one more reason to enjoy your life if you live in the Northern Hemisphere.
Today I would like to share a corralled number of works by the mid-XIX century French  artist  Gustave Coubert, famous for his women nudes, landscapes, portraits, and support for the French Communist rebellion know as the Paris Commune of 1870.
but we will just look at some of his equestrian art with canine elements mostly in hunting context-

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dog from A Burial at Ornans

a donkey 

. the deer hunt

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a hunting dog and diligence from Bonjour Monsieur Courbert

Roebuck

the wrestlers

enjoy
Valete

Diligence - traveling from Perpignan to Barcelona in 1820s

 Salvete Omnes,

Christmas is two weeks away, so we have got time to do a little time  travel with a certain young American to Spain in 1820s.

this young gentleman,  Alexander Slidell Mackenzie (1803-1848),  began his trip to Spain by taking a public transport aka  the stagecoach known also as a diligence (and  una  diligencia o  carruaje in Spain) from a southern French town of Perpignan , crossed into Spain and arrived at Barcelona.

in the volume I Mackenzie wrote the following about the French diligence horses and their traveling - they traveled at a 'slow and easy pace', the horses were 'heavy-headed' and 'thick-legged.'

Alexander S. Mackenzie published his travel books in London 1831 and in New York 1836. Nota bene Alexander was a father of Ronald Mackenzie, Civil War general and later a commanding cavalry officer in the Indian Wars.

More  equestrian  topics from  ''A Year in Spain" in the future.

Valete