Rest Stop For Hunters And Horsemen – Flemish Or Dutch School – 17th/18th Century

Oil on canvas depicting a lively scene of a return from a hunt or a rest stop for horsemen, in the tradition of 17th- and 18th-century Flemish and Dutch genre painting.

The composition centers on several horsemen and figures in period costumes, accompanied by their horses and a white greyhound in the foreground.

The rendering of the figures, the drapery, and the horses, as well as the liveliness of the scene, evoke the compositions of the Northern masters who specialized in equestrian and hunting scenes.

Provenance: former residence of Jules Delpit (1808–1892), a historian, scholar, and collector from Bordeaux, co-founder of the Société des Archives Historiques de la Gironde, and co-author of the 1855 catalog of the Musée de Bordeaux.

The painting was kept at his estate in Izon (Gironde), which remained in the Delpit family until 2018.

The canvas has been restored and re-stretched.

Period: 17th / 18th century
Technique: oil on canvas
Dimensions: approximately 64 × 57 cm
Condition: restored and re-stretched