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The Yellow Riders
Also titled De Gele Rijders
George Hendrik Breitner (Rotterdam, 1857–1923)
1885 - 1886
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 115 cm x width 77.5 cm x depth 13.5 cm
- 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 elite ‘Yellow Riders’ (a mounted artillery corps) gallops down the dunes at breakneck speed. Breitner took full advantage of their black-and-red busbies and the gold braid on their uniforms. The repetition of these colour accents reinforces the dynamism of the movement. The sand kicked up by the horses at front clouds the view of the horsemen behind. All that remains are the accents of black, yellow and red.
