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Philips Wouwerman was an extremely successful painter in the Netherlands in the seventeenth century and was also a favourite in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His paintings – landscapes with rural scenes being enacted in them – are full of movement, small dramas and incident, capturing the imagination of the viewer. A billowing cloud, its shape and movement echoed in the tree that pierces the sky, sets the busy, almost turbulent, atmosphere. The blacksmith shoeing the white horse raises a strong arm. Around him boys busy themselves with buckets, while the horse’s elegant owner supports its leg. A rider comes up the hill at a pace, while on the right another – and more gruesome – procedure is taking place, the horse’s head thrown back and its mouth open.
Title
A Horse being Shod outside a Village Smithy
Date
probably 1640-50
Medium
Oil on oak
Measurements
H 46.1 x W 62.2 cm
Accession number
NG2554
Acquisition method
Salting Bequest, 1910
Work type
Painting
The National Gallery, London
Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England
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