# Princes Maurice and Frederick Henry at the Valkenburg Horse Fair

- By: Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne (Delft, ca. –1662)
- Date: 1618
- Medium: panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: support: height 54.2 cm x width 133.5 cm
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-676--abd2ba226fa8558f561fffe477ffccbe)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/SPtCC/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.