A Woman Mounts her Robber’s Horse: ‘De Gestrafte Rover’, Sebastiaen Vrancx, c. 1635

Identification

Title(s)

A Woman Mounts her Robber’s Horse: ‘De Gestrafte Rover’

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-A-1637

Inscriptions / marks

signature, in monogram, bottom left: ‘SV’
mark, on the reverse, indistinct, of a panelmaker's mark

Description

De gestrafte rover. Op de weg tussen Sint Truiden en Thienen werd een vrouw door een Spaanse ruiter van haar kleding tot op het hemd beroofd, zij maakt gebruik van een moment van onoplettendheid om zijn paard te bestijgen en te ontvluchten.

Creation

Artist

painter: Sebastiaen Vrancx

Dating

c. 1635

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on panel

Material

Measurements

support: height 45 cm × width 64.7 cm
outer size: depth 5 cm (support incl. frame)

Subject

What

Where

Sint-Truiden

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

Gift of Jonkheer V. de Stuers

Acquisition

gift Dec-1895

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; collection H.M. Otto, Amsterdam; anonymous sale [section H.M. Otto], Amsterdam (C.F. Roos), 5 November 1895 _sqq_., no. 43, as D. Vinckboons, fl. 20, to De Souza;{Copy RKD.}…; donated by Victor de Stuers to the museum, 1895{Notes Hörster 2008, p. 52, RMA.}

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Persistent URL

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