WOUWERMAN, Philips
(b. 1619, Haarlem, d. 1668, Haarlem)

Battle on Horseback

c. 1645
Oil on canvas, 98 x 122 cm
Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna

In this early work Wouwerman staged a battle of life and death between brigands that have been plundering a peasant's farm.