Le Cheval Artwork

Found in the Netherlands, this 1940s framed equestrian portrait shows a bay stallion standing on a stone terrace, a colonnade at his back and a garden urn behind him. Portraits like this carry on a long European tradition of the formal horse painting, where a prized animal was painted as carefully as the family who owned him, often with the family estate set behind to make the connection clear. The wood frame is original to the picture, its grain showing through in warm tiger stripes. Sylvie hangs it in a study or above a small desk, the kind of picture that gives a room a quiet centre of gravity.

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