Two Horses by a Trough

anonymous, 1625 - 1749

  • Artwork typedrawing
  • Object numberRP-T-00-303
  • Dimensionsheight 185 mm x width 147 mm
  • Physical characteristicsmonotype in reddish-brown oil pigment; outlines indented with a stylus; framing line in grey ink

anonymous

Two Horses by a Trough

1625 - 1749

Inscriptions

  • inscribed on verso: lower right, in an eighteenth-century (?) hand, in red chalk, N. 1-H

Technical notes

watermark: unidentified (fragment)

Condition

Damage on the underside of the foremost horse; some light grey spots

Provenance

…; acquired by the museum (L. 2228), by 1872; first recorded in the museum in 1973

Object number: RP-T-00-303

Entry

In the past, this sheet has been implausibly ascribed both to the Antwerp painter Pieter van Bloemen (1657-1720) and to the renowned Dutch horse painter Philips Wouwerman (1619-1668), the name under which a similar sheet is preserved in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (inv. no. P. Wouwerman.2).1Photo RKD.

Jane Shoaf Turner, 2020

Citation

J. Shoaf Turner, 2020, 'anonymous, Two Horses by a Trough, 1625 - 1749', in J. Turner (ed.), Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200145656

(accessed 7 January 2026 20:34:19).

Footnotes

  • 1Photo RKD.