Skirmish between Polish and Turkish Cavalry
Jan van Huchtenburgh (Haarlem 1647 - Amsterdam 1733)
Lot-No. 498
Proceeds : 3.500 €
Oil/canvas. 48 x 66,5 cm. On the stretcher Christie's block stamp. Some rest. Relined to the margins. - Expertise: Fred Meijer, Amsterdam has identified the painting as characteristic work of Jan van Huchtenburg - Dutch battle painter, student of Thomas Wyck. After a stay in Paris at the Gobelin manufactory, he worked in Haarlem. From 1708 he was a battle chronicler in the service of the Austrian field marshal Prince Eugene, later he worked at the court of Elector Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz, last in The Hague. Mus.: Paris (Louvre), Vienna (Kunsthist. Mus. u.a.), Amsterdam (Rijksmus.), London (Nat. Gall.), The Hague (Maurishuis), Dresden, Munich, Copenhagen a. others Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bernt a. others.
Jan van Huchtenburgh: Skirmish between Polish and Turkish Cavalry
Jan van Huchtenburgh (Haarlem 1647 - Amsterdam 1733)
Skirmish between Polish and Turkish Cavalry
Lot-No. 498
Proceeds : 3.500 €
Oil/canvas. 48 x 66,5 cm. On the stretcher Christie's block stamp. Some rest. Relined to the margins. - Expertise: Fred Meijer, Amsterdam has identified the painting as characteristic work of Jan van Huchtenburg - Dutch battle painter, student of Thomas Wyck. After a stay in Paris at the Gobelin manufactory, he worked in Haarlem. From 1708 he was a battle chronicler in the service of the Austrian field marshal Prince Eugene, later he worked at the court of Elector Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz, last in The Hague. Mus.: Paris (Louvre), Vienna (Kunsthist. Mus. u.a.), Amsterdam (Rijksmus.), London (Nat. Gall.), The Hague (Maurishuis), Dresden, Munich, Copenhagen a. others Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bernt a. others.
