FLEMISH SCHOOL 17thC - STUDY OF A HORSE ATTR. VAN DER MEULEN - RED CHALK
Item History & Price
For sale is this very decorative and refined 17th century old master drawing, a recent find on a market near Parma. The drawing is part of a set of two simular drawings by the same artist.
The drawing, executed in red chalk on laid watermarked paper, depicts a study of a jumping horse.This drawing, most likely, was a preparatory study for a painting, most likely a battle scene.
Authorship : the drawing is from the Flemish School, attributed to Adam Frans van der Meu...len.
ADAM FRANS VAN DER MEULEN (Brussels 1632 - Paris 1690) : Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in battle scenes. Van der Meulen was a pupil of the painter of battle scenes, Pieter Snayers, a painter active in Antwerp. He was called to Paris about 1666 by the finance minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert, at the request of Charles Le Brun. Le Brun wanted him to fill up the post of battle painter to Louis XIV. His paintings of the campaigns in Flanders (1667) delighted Louis so much, that from that date van der Meulen was ordered to accompany him on all his campaigns. He was also active as a designer of tapestry cartoons for the Gobelins factory depicting Louis’s military career. In 1673 he was received into the French Academy.
Period : ca. 1660-1670.
Size : 14, 5x19, 3cm.
Condition : Good. Some scattered dirt throughout. Right side : traces of wrinkling. Slightly cut down in size bottom side. Unframed.
Shipping : flat shippingrate 16$. Shipped as International Registered Mail (with trackingn°). Combined shipping available.
The drawing, executed in red chalk on laid watermarked paper, depicts a study of a jumping horse.This drawing, most likely, was a preparatory study for a painting, most likely a battle scene.
Authorship : the drawing is from the Flemish School, attributed to Adam Frans van der Meu...len.
ADAM FRANS VAN DER MEULEN (Brussels 1632 - Paris 1690) : Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in battle scenes. Van der Meulen was a pupil of the painter of battle scenes, Pieter Snayers, a painter active in Antwerp. He was called to Paris about 1666 by the finance minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert, at the request of Charles Le Brun. Le Brun wanted him to fill up the post of battle painter to Louis XIV. His paintings of the campaigns in Flanders (1667) delighted Louis so much, that from that date van der Meulen was ordered to accompany him on all his campaigns. He was also active as a designer of tapestry cartoons for the Gobelins factory depicting Louis’s military career. In 1673 he was received into the French Academy.
Period : ca. 1660-1670.
Size : 14, 5x19, 3cm.
Condition : Good. Some scattered dirt throughout. Right side : traces of wrinkling. Slightly cut down in size bottom side. Unframed.
Shipping : flat shippingrate 16$. Shipped as International Registered Mail (with trackingn°). Combined shipping available.
