Salvete Omnes,
a quick entry - Dog days of the summer -
ad rem, one of my favorite periods in Polish uniform history is the Duchy of Warsaw: 1806-1815AD , during the Napoleonic Wars.
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| Poniatowski and his staff in Krakow's Sukiennice 1809, Stachowicz pinxit |
Stachowicz, Michał (1768-1825) conceived the idea and drawings while a German engraver Sebastian Langer (1772-1841) executed the prints for a publication in Krakow (then a so called Free City of Krakow) in 1831.
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Salvete Omnes,
J.G. Pforr (1745-98) was active in Western German state of Hesse-Kassel. Being a son of a tenant farmer, he went to work in a mine, injured there he then was hired as a porcelain painter, and from that factory he went on to become a full-time painter.
Influenced by Philips Wouwermann, Paulus Potter, and other Dutch painters, he was called a German Wouwermann by his fellow countrymen. Johann Pforr died too early, in his 55 year, and he art remains.
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| curious bit and kind of interesting headstall & the third rein |
from his 'stable' of horse drawings and paintings comes this piece- Polish horses of his era. This artwork is held at Städel Museum in Frankfurt on Main River, western German state of Hesse.
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| very typical Polish headstall and bridle of the period |
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| I wonder if the rider's costume was taken from some Saxon archive, as in Saxony there were Polish-Lithuanian Tatar lancers or uhlan/ulan regiments until 1763. |
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