Spanish Warhorse

• Spanish Warhorse
• A Spanish Warhorse Captured by Lodewijk Gunther van Nassau from Archduke Albert of Austria in the Battle of Nieuwpoort and Presented to Prince Maurits

SK-A-4255

• signature and date: ‘IDGheyn fe 1603’
• inscription: ‘HVnC dedIt aVstrIaCo teLLVs hIspana CreatrIX VICtorqVe dedIt fLandrIa MaVrItIo’

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.

Documentatiemap Schilderijen: aantekeningen R. van Luttervelt (voor 1963).

painter: Jacques de Gheyn (II)

1603

olieverf op doek

• depth 6.2 cm
• height 228 cm x width 269 cm

Gift of Jonkheer W.L.B. van Panhuys, Leeuwarden

gift 1880

Public domain

Documentatiemap Schilderijen: aantekeningen R. van Luttervelt (voor 1963).

To refer to this object, please use the following persistent URL:

https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/20027926