Prince Maurits Astride the White Warhorse Presented to Him after His Victory at Nieuwpoort, c.1633–1635
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Prince Maurits sits in gilded armour on the white stallion he was given after his victory at Nieuwpoort, a horse with a mane of almost absurd length. Behind him, on a strip of dunes and sea, whole armies are still drawing up for battle.
It was painted years after the prince’s death, as a piece of loyal memory for the House of Orange, and it has all the swagger of a tribute. Small in the original, it grows on the wall into something between a royal portrait and a toy-soldier dream: an army in the distance, and one splendid horse up close.
Prince Maurits Astride the White Warhorse Presented to Him after His Victory at Nieuwpoort, c.1633–1635
The print
Print Quality: Gallery-standard archival pigment giclée, made to order
Media: 308gsm 100% cotton Hahnemühle Photo Rag
Texture & Tone: Super-matte, smooth chalky finish with soft, muted blacks
Longevity: Museum-grade, generational permanence
Photo Rag’s smooth cotton keeps every glint of the gilded armour and the fine grain of the wooden panel, without adding any texture of its own.
Sizes available:
40×45cm, 16×18″, fine art print, open edition
56×63cm, 22×25″, fine art print, open edition
80×90cm, 31×35″, fine art print, open edition
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The story
Maurits of Nassau, Prince of Orange, led the armies of the young Dutch Republic against Spain, and on 2 July 1600 he won the Battle of Nieuwpoort on the coast of Flanders. The white warhorse he rides here was presented to him after that victory. In the background, a dune landscape and a strip of sea point back to the battlefield, while the armies draw up behind him.
The painting is by Pauwels van Hillegaert, who painted soldiers, sieges and battles for the House of Orange. It is small, oil on a wooden panel just 37.3 × 33.2 cm, and its date comes from the wood itself: tree-ring analysis shows the panel cannot have been painted before 1628, and probably dates from after 1633, years after Maurits died in 1625. It was once catalogued as a work by Mierevelt, and its attribution is still discussed. Today it belongs to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
