Philips Wouwerman

Battle Scene

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Philips Wouwerman
Battle Scene

On view in Room 16

Wouwerman was the leading horse painter of the seventeenth century, and painted mainly hunting scenes and landscapes with horsemen. This battle scene is his largest painting. The horses, cavalrymen and infantry form an almost inextricable tangle. Only the rider in the red jacket on the white horse really stands out.

In the eighteenth century, Wouwerman’s paintings were in great demand from the European elite. Stadholder Prince Willem V of Orange had no fewer than nine of them – they now form part of the collection of the Mauritshuis.

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Battle Scene

On view in Room 16

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General information
Philips Wouwerman (Haarlem 1619 - 1668 Haarlem)
Battle Scene
painting
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Room 16
Material and technical details
oil
canvas
127 x 245 cm
Inscriptions
lower right: PHILS.W
PHILS in ligature

Provenance

Benjamin da Costa, The Hague, 1764; Prince William V, The Hague, 1764-1795; confiscated by the French, transferred to the Muséum Central des Arts/Musée Napoléon (Musée du Louvre), Paris, 1795-1815; Royal Picture Gallery, housed in the Prince William V Gallery, The Hague, 1816; transferred to the Mauritshuis, 1822