Spanish Warhorse
Also titled Spaanse strijdhengst
Jacques de Gheyn (II) (Antwerp, 1565–1629)
1603
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 6.2 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of Jonkheer W.L.B. van Panhuys, Leeuwarden
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Adult profiles and older: its museum's description or title mentions violence, death or gore. How works are placed
About this work
This Spanish stallion belonged to the Spanish military commander Albert of Austria in 1600. During the Battle of Nieuwpoort the horse was seized and subsequently presented to Prince Maurice. Three years later Maurice had the horse grandly portrayed as a war trophy and a sign of triumph. At some point the painting lost this meaning and was folded up; the resulting damage is still visible.
