J.G. Pforr - two stallions

 Salvete Omnes,

 just for the pleasure and beauty of it -  more J. G. Pforr's equestrian work in oils - two XVIII century stallions being presented:

first a palomino or dorado (izabelowaty in Polish) being presented during a horse market display

a XVIII century saddle with stirrups in the foreground

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glorious bay stallion

the groom is wearing a pari of Hungarian riding pants and boots with spurs . Oxen pull a cart in the background

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J.G. Pforr - Danish horse

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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

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Pforr's Russian Imperial horses

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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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David Klocker Ehrenstrahl - more horse and some royal riders

a golden horse of Karl XI

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a fine bay steed, king in a gilded cuirass

just for your viewing pleasure - some more horses from the brushes of David Klocker Ehrenstrahl, court painter at the Swedish royal court of the XVII century. 

splendid gray 

Karl XI in a buff coat 

bay Sultan

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a ruler of Holstein - Fredrich IV

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Adriaen van de Venne - horse fair

 Salvete Omnes,

This work by Adriaen van de Venne (1589-1662) offers a quick glimpse into the world of Dutch horse market day back in the XVII century.
The painting is located at Rijks Museum in Netherlands. 

so prince Maurice and Frederick Henry, who appeared in this post on my blog,  arrived at the Valkenburg Horse Fair - in Valkenburg, South Holland. 

And the horsetrading and horsing around started :) ; the painting is full of amazing period detail and Dutch horse culture elements

a splendid palomino - perhaps Spanish horse

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wagon drivers?

a gray horse with a page boy - fully outfitted riding horse and his gentleman standing near by

Nota bene look how many  youngsters are in these images - unlike in the period films made nowadays

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