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Equestrian Portrait of Frederick Henry
Also titled Portret van Frederik Hendrik te paard
in or after 1631
- Medium
- tortoise shell, paint (coating), oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- shield
- Dimensions
- outer size: height 125 cm x width 111 cm x depth 34 cm (support incl. backboard)
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
The capture of Den Bosch is chiefly due to the strategic brilliance and perseverance of the army’s commander, Frederick Henry. As a result, the war takes a new turn. Several years later the prince also seizes Venlo, Roermond, and Maastricht. Frederick Henry is often triumphantly depicted on horseback. But quite uniquely he is here portrayed as such on the shell of a South American giant tortoise: an indirect expression of the Netherlands as a world power.
