Princes Maurice and Frederick Henry at the Valkenburg Horse Fair
Also titled Prinsen Maurits en Frederik Hendrik op de paardenmarkt van Valkenburg
Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne (Delft, ca. –1662)
1618
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: height 54.2 cm x width 133.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
Van de Venne uses the arrival of Prince Maurice and his younger brother Frederick Henry – in a carriage drawn by six grey horses – to underscore the contrast between the elegant conduct of Hague courtiers and the boorish manners of the peasants. The artist captures the atmosphere of the fair with vignettes of a singer and a woman selling fruit and vegetables whose purse is being picked.
