Pieter Schout on Horseback
Also titled Pieter Schout te paard
Thomas de Keyser (Amsterdam, ca. –1667)
1660
- Medium
- copper (metal), oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- frame: height 104.4 cm x width 89 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Jonkheer J.S.H. van de Poll Bequest, Amsterdam
- 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
Equestrian portraits were traditionally the reserve of princes. Accordingly, in the Netherlands very few equestrian portraits were made, except for the court. Only a handful of burghers had themselves immortalized on horseback. Pieter Schout was one such citizen who assumed a princely air. He was bailiff – administrative officer – of Hagestein on the River Lek.
