A Procession of Cavalry passing through a Wood beside Fishponds
Lucas van Uden (Antwerp 1595 – Antwerp 1672)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1630 - 1672
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
570 x 795 mm
Place of origin
Antwerp
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485095
Summary
Oil painting on panel, A Procession of Cavalry passing through a Wood beside Fishponds by Lucas van Uden (Antwerp 1595 – Antwerp 1672). Landscape of a lake in a wood, crossed by a causeway. On the bank is a column of horsemen advancing and to the left there is a wooded slope, lined with foot soldiers with levelled arquebuses. A spire is in the right centre distance. As Waagen wrote in 1854: "A landscape, with very true reflections in a piece of water, belongs to the best pictures of this excellent painter, who assisted Rubens so much in his landscape backgrounds." It has been suggested that the figure on the prancing horse is probably Gaston d’Orleans (1608–60), who was granted asylum by the Spanish at Brussels in the early 1630s.
Provenance
Bought from Charles Birch on 27 January 1800 as by Van Uden and Rubens, for 36 gns. By descent to the current Lord Egremont. On loan from the Egremont Private Collection
Credit line
Petworth House, The Egremont Collection
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: Stretcher inscribed in bold white paint 388; DELISS; and 4 in white chalk; LPa inscribed in blue chalk; calculation in pencil: 27 5 12)135
Makers and roles
Lucas van Uden (Antwerp 1595 – Antwerp 1672), artist previously catalogued as by Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 - Antwerp 1640) and Lucas van Uden (Antwerp 1595 – Antwerp 1672), artist