material used: oil paint / depicts: horse

instance of: painting (1,520) | oil painting (20) | study (5) | reredos (2) | statue (2) | altarpiece (2) | triptych (1) | drawing (1) | artwork copy (1) | lithograph (1) | picture clock (1) | artwork original version (1)

commissioned by: Louis Philippe I (3) | Louis XIV of France (2) | Napoleon (1) | Charles X of France (1) | Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (1) | Charles IV of Spain (1) | Manuel de Godoy, Prince of the Peace (1) | Afonso d'Escragnolle Taunay (1) | Joaquim Inácio Ramalho (1)

owned by: France (10) | Birmingham Museum of Art (9) | Willem Lormier (5) | National Gallery of Armenia (4) | Adam Gottlob Moltke (3) | Karoline Luise von Baden (3) | Moriz Königswarter (3) | Frederik Moltke (3) | John Meyer (3) | Alfred Thieme (3) | Louis Philippe I (2) | Théodore Géricault (2) | Edmond James de Rothschild (2) | Anatoly Nikolaievich Demidov, 1st Prince of San Donato (2) | Dallas Museum of Art (2) | John G. Johnson (2) | Jan Gildemeester (2) | Louis Antoine Crozat (2)

movement: Orientalism (15) | Romanticism (13) | Baroque (11) | rococo (5) | mannerism (5) | academic art (5) | Flemish Primitives (5) | Venetian school (4) | Dutch Golden Age painting (4) | neoclassicism (3) | Art Nouveau (3) | expressionism (3) | Baroque painting (3) | High Renaissance (3) | Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (2) | modern art (1) | Impressionism (1) | Caravaggisti (1)

genre: landscape art (361) | genre art (153) | history painting (94) | portrait (90) | religious art (75) | equestrian portrait (67) | animal painting (46) | battle painting (24) | allegory (22) | mythological painting (22) | cityscape (21) | nude (16) | equestrian portrait (15) | Orientalism (4) | self-portrait (4) | military art (4) | group portrait (4) | capriccio (4)

named after: Charles XII of Sweden (1)

based on: Saint George and the Dragon (6) | Greek mythology (4) | Book of Genesis (2) | Metamorphoses (2) | Don Quixote (1) | Odyssey (1) | Joshua (1) | Judges (1) | Commentarii de Bello Gallico (1) | Battle of Nancy (1) | The Tiger Hunt (1) | Battle of Magenta (1) | Ivanhoe (1) | Rape of the Sabine Women (1) | Death of Sardanapalus (1) | Chios Massacre (1) | A Dream of the Past: Sir Isumbras at the Ford (1) | Battle of Taillebourg (1)

artist: Philips Wouwerman (94) | anonymous (83) | George Catlin (33) | Aelbert Cuyp (28) | Eugène Delacroix (21) | Peter Paul Rubens (20) | Paulus Potter (20) | Camille Pissarro (19) | Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem (18) | Isaac van Ostade (16) | George Stubbs (15) | David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl (13) | James Pollard (13) | Théodore Géricault (12) | James Ward (12) | Pieter van Bloemen (11) | Francis Calcraft Turner (11) | George Hendrik Breitner (10)

part of the series: Napoleon Crossing the Alps (2)

collection: Yale Center for British Art (220) | National Museum in Warsaw (120) | Rijksmuseum (112) | private collection (110) | Nationalmuseum (94) | Department of Paintings of the Louvre (93) | Smithsonian American Art Museum (59) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (58) | Museu Paulista collection (42) | Musée d'Orsay (30) | Museum of the History of France (27) | Statens Museum for Kunst (22) | National Library of Wales (20) | National Library of Wales Framed works of art collection (20) | Hermitage Museum (18) | National Portrait Gallery of Sweden (18) | The Wallace Collection (17) | Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (16)

location: Yale Center for British Art (220) | Rijksmuseum (111) | Nationalmuseum (79) | National Museum in Warsaw (69) | private collection (60) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (58) | Smithsonian American Art Museum (58) | museum's storage space (51) | Museu Paulista (42) | Musée d'Orsay (29) | Statens Museum for Kunst (22) | National Library of Wales (20) | The Wallace Collection (17) | Amsterdam Museum (16) | Hermitage Museum (15) | Museo del Prado (15) | Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (14) | National Portrait Gallery of Sweden (14)

part of: Punishment of a Hunter (7) | Napoleon Crossing the Alps (2) | Ghent Altarpiece (2) | Ovid among the Scythians (2) | Former Diptych, split and held in two museums (2) | The Abduction of the Sabine Women (1) | Lamego Cathedral polyptych (1) | Ca' Dolfin Tiepolos (1)

country of origin: United States of America (109) | Brazil (42) | Spain (8) | France (8) | Denmark (3) | Italy (2) | Soviet Union (1) | Noruega (1)

exhibition history: Europeana 280 (6) | Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges (5) | Salon of 1808 (4) | International Exposition 1867 (3) | Salon of 1865 (3) | Salon of 1869 (3) | Salon of 1827 (3) | Salon of 1837 (3) | Exposition Universelle of 1855 (2) | Salon of 1814 (2) | Salon of 1833 (2) | Salon of 1824 (2) | Salon of 1845 (2) | Velázquez (2) | George Stubbs (1724 –1806) – Science into Art (2) | Corot 1796-1875 (2) | Exposition des primitifs français (2) | Salon of 1812 (2)

main subject: hunting (8) | Saint George and the Dragon (7) | Adoration of the Magi (6) | crucifixion of Jesus (4) | return from the hunt (4) | parable of the Good Samaritan (3) | conversion of Paul the Apostle (3) | Spanish-style bullfighting (3) | Parable of the Prodigal Son (2) | fall of man (2) | winter landscape (2) | woman (1) | girl (1) | family (1) | Tower of Babel (1) | Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1) | Battle of Narva (1) | Catherine of Alexandria (1)

donated by: Works Progress Administration (1) | Helen Hay Whitney (1) | Carl S. Dentzel (1) | Alan and Alice Fleischer (1) | Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel Spear Jr. (1) | Mrs. Hugh L. Macneil (1)

location of final assembly: United States of America (7) | Paris (3) | France (3) | Italy (2) | Mexico (1) | Brazil (1) | Iran (1) | Florence (1) | Madrid (1) | The Hague (1) | Rio de Janeiro (1) | Tahiti (1) | Arles (1)

published in: European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born before 1865: A Summary Catalogue (3) | A Concise Catalogue of the European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | The Unicorn Tapestries (1) | From Van Eyck to Bruegel: Early Netherlandish Painting in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | Man and the Horse: An Illustrated History of Equestrian Apparel (1) | American art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (1) | Conrad Wise Chapman: Artist & Soldier of the Confederacy (1) | The Civil War (1)

fabrication method: oil painting (3) | grisaille (1)