Showing posts with label dog. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dog. Show all posts

Friday, May 8, 2026

Abraham Teniers' saddles, pistol holsters & cavalry weapons from the guardroom

 Salvete Omnes, 



Flemish master David Teniers the Elder had 4 sons who became painters and masters in their own right. 
David Teniers the Younger achieved the most notoriety, but his younger brother Abraham also was noted for this popular guardroom scenes theme.


In these paintings we can observe numerous pieces of equipment, including fine saddles, armor, weapons, even our Central European  (Polish, Hungarian or Croat) weaponry - sabre and nadziak/war hammer. 


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drums and pistol with a young black groom carrying a sword


Valete

Thursday, October 30, 2025

Paul Jean Gervais - two horses

 Salvete Omnes,



Paul Jean Gervais , French painter educated at the Art Academy of Toulouse and Beaux-Arts de Paris under Jean-Leaon Gerome and Gabriel Ferrier during the latr XIX century,   is not actually known for horses but beautiful female depictions.

So today  I would like to share with you his two horses from his painting, these works show exquisite control and command of the equine anatomy along with his fabulous painting mastery.

These paintings come from the Gervais Hall at the Capitole de Toulouse.

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enjoy

Enjoy 

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Polish saddle from Livrustkannaren circa AD 1605

 Salvete Omnes,

another unusual XVII century Polish saddle, this time from Livrustkammaren Museum in Stockholm, Sweden.



Sadel med fram och bakbommar av ben med rikliga graveringar föreställande bl a riddare, hundar och andra djur. Hög, rundad sadelknapp, på utsidan försedd med staden Danzigs vapen, på insidan årtalet "1605", det sistnämnda möjligen senare ingraverat.
Sits av grönt kläde med gula tvärgående sömmar. Kåpor, stödbommar samt frambommens insida av rött kläde. Skinnapplikationer på kåporna i form av turkiskt bladmönster. Foder och kantskoning av läder. Kåpornas form något nedhängande samt bredare nertill.
Bakbom med två högt uppstående rundade sittblad. På sittbladens baksida riddare till häst med en hund och fågel i förgrunden. Längs med bakbommens sidor jagande hundar, hjortar och harar. Frambommens båda sidor med två moderiktigt klädda herrar i fokus. Insidan av sadelknappen dekorerad med orientalisk krigare till häst beväpnad med javelin.
Stomme på undersidan beklädd med näver. Två remmar med sölja för fäste av förbygel. Fyra sadelgjordsstroppar. Rester av läderögla framför frambommen.
Uppges i Livrustkammarens inventarium 1748 ha tillhört Karl X Gustav.
[Google translate -Saddle with front and back bars made of bone with rich engravings depicting knights, dogs and other animals. High, rounded saddle horn plate, on the outside with the coat of arms of the city of Danzig, on the inside the year "1605", the latter possibly engraved later.
Seat of green cloth with yellow transverse seams. Covers, support bars and the inside of the front bar made of red cloth. Leather applications on the covers in the form of a Turkish leaf pattern. Lining and edge banding of leather. The shape of the covers is slightly drooping and wider at the bottom.
Back bar with two high rounded seat leaves. On the back of the seat leaves a knight on horseback with a dog and bird in the foreground. Along the sides of the back bar hunting dogs, deer and hares. Both sides of the front bar with two fashionably dressed gentlemen in focus. The inside of the saddle button decorated with an oriental warrior on horseback armed with a javelin.
Frame on the underside covered with birch bark. Two straps with buckle for attachment of stirrup. Four girth straps. Remains of leather loop in front of the front bar.
Stated in the Livrustkammaren inventory of 1748 to have belonged to Charles X Gustav.]


 
inside the horn plate there is a coat of arms ofg the Royal City of Gdansk



hunter with dogs 



a nice portrayal of an Ottoman horseman with a javelin - cirit

great shot of the undeside of the saddle - the tree is birchbark-lined

the seat is cushioned 


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this saddle represents the very eclectic world of the Old Poland saddle making, especially  the northern provinces of the Kingdom. 

enjoy


Valete

Sunday, December 15, 2024

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 

Valete

Friday, August 23, 2024

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



Valete 

Sunday, July 21, 2024

Jan Mostaert's horses p.II

 Salvete Omnes,

Equestrian details from this portrait


in 2020   I posted some equestrian related works by master Jan Monstaer - here the link to my full posting.


detail from this painting - generalized view of a palfrey or riding horse harness 

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variety of early XVI century harness 

the whole wing of the Triptych 

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in this portrait late Medieval equitation on display 

this painting  unfortunately I have no larger resolution in color  - as the harness details are splendid 

But I found B& W photo at the National Museum in Warsaw - 

splendid mule harness

bridle arrangement

enjoy

Valete

Thursday, May 18, 2023

Alfred Dehodencq sketching horse and rider from Europe and North Africa, Gypsy, donkey & dogs

 Salvete Omnes,





today a long title to my post but a short gallop across some of the artwork by a French XIX century master Alfred Dehodencq -  wiki. 



Sketches and watercolor studies -  more on wiki commons .. 




















and  paintings of les Bohemiens (the Gypsy Roma on their wandering ) - Spanish most likely, as he had gone to Spain after 1848 AD or so.   





Valete