Saddling Horses
Abraham Pietersz. van Calraet (Dordrecht 1642 - Dordrecht 1722)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1652 - 1722
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
340 x 516 mm
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486157
Caption
Calraet was a still-life and landscape painter of the Dutch Golden age. He was born and died in Dordrecht, probably spending his life there. He may have been a pupil of Aelbert Cuyp, with whom his pictures are sometimes confused.
Summary
Oil painting on panel, Saddling Horses by Abraham van Calraet (Dordrecht 1642 – Dordrecht 1722). A landscape. At left is a house with a man looking out of a window; below, a cavalier is standing while his groom adjusts the stirrup of a bay horse. At centre, there is a black horse, unsaddled, held by a boy in a vermilion coat; and at right, the saddle on the ground, near a cock and two hens. In the centre right distance is a canal and a tower.
Provenance
Possibly acquired with NT/PET/P/183*, Abraham van Calraet, 'Horsemen in a Ravine', at Sir James Colebrooke's sale, Prestage & Hobbs, 3-4 February 1762 by the 2nd Earl of Egremont (1710-1763). Thence by descent, until the death in 1952 of the 3rd Lord Leconfield, who had given Petworth to the National Trust in 1947, and whose nephew and heir, John Wyndham, 6th Lord Leconfield and 1st Lord Egremont (1920-72) arranged for the acceptance of the major portion of the collections at Petworth in lieu of death duties (the first ever such arrangement) in 1956 by H.M.Treasury.
Credit line
Petworth House, The Egremont Collection (acquired in lieu of tax by HM Treasury in 1956 and subsequently transferred to the National Trust)
Makers and roles
Abraham Pietersz. van Calraet (Dordrecht 1642 - Dordrecht 1722), artist