The horse in Western painting: breeds, harness, sporting art and battle.
The oldest use of the horse in painting: a man raised above eye level, the animal borrowing him its authority.
Equestrian Portrait of Henri De La Tour D"auvergne, Vicomte De Turenne
Adam van der Meulen
Equestrian Portrait of Louis Xiv of France
Adam van der Meulen
Portrait of a Horse
Albert Bierstadt
Arab horsemen on a bridge
Alfred Dehodencq
Portrait of the Painter Cornelis de Wae
Anthony van Dyck
Equestrian Portrait of Charles I, King of England
Anthony van Dyck
Cavalry charges, hussars and cuirassiers — the horse as the fastest thing on a battlefield for three hundred years.
Racecourse and hunting field: the genre that paid British animal painters, and where the horse is the wager.
Plough, cart, timber and coach — the working horse, usually painted as part of the ground it turns.
Mares, foals, stallions and grooms at the water trough: the horse observed at rest, with no rider to share the frame.
An Equestrian Portrait of Napoleon with a Battle Beyond
Carle Vernet
Horse-drawn carriage ride
Federico Faruffini
Cows at the Watering
Constant Troyon
