Most Famous Horse Painting?

[Beverley]

[QUOTE=SmartAlex;8003259]
Marengo: The Myth of Napoleon’s Horse[/QUOTE]

Gee thanks, you’ve helped me correct flawed memory. I could have sworn I saw the stuffed Marengo at Les Invalides in Paris, but that is in fact Le Vizir.

I agree Whistlejacket is generally considered ‘most famous,’ but I think of this one as up there too, from Stubbs:

http://paintingandframe.com/buy/george_stubbs_lustre_held_by_a_groom_art_print-15663.html?ds=10x8&gclid=CIbgnIn-18MCFQYJaQod4gsA1A

As for personal favorites, man, too many to narrow down! I’d have to include Stubbs, Munnings, Michael Lyne and more. And for that matter, Degas, including this one: http://www.zazzle.com/edgar_degas_horse_racing_before_start_1878_80_postcard-239647417533162566

[zippyrider]

[QUOTE=Janet;8003281]

I think that Leonardo da Vinci’s sketches are more well known, but they are sketches, not pantings.[/QUOTE]

This was my first thought.

[Field_of_Dreams_Mini]

I got to see Whistlejacket and the Stubbs exhibit when it was here in Fort Worth at the Kimble Art Museum.

[B]INCREDIBLE

[/B]
All of his paintings were incredible, but WJ brought tears to my eyes. It’s HUGE.

[Zonderpaard]

[QUOTE=Halt Near X;8002639]
I was thinking Whistlejacket before I even opened this post[/QUOTE]

Me too! I love that painting. I made a trip to London for the express reason of seeing it when it returned to the main collection there.

It’s an amazing painting and it has a terrific backstory.

[Haybert]

[QUOTE=amastrike;8003504]
Whistlejacket. I saw the painting when I was in London and have a stuffed toy Whistlejacket :D.[/QUOTE]

I also saw it at the National Gallery in London many years ago.

It is perfection.

Considering it is before Muybridge, it’s understanding of the and movement of this horse is quite a masterful work.

I can’t think of many modern artists, even with the aid of photography who took the exemplary effort to know their subject like George Stubbs did.

[Joanne]

Not the most famous, but pretty famous:

End Of The Trail Painting by Michael J. Meketi

[AmmyByNature]

I thought Whistlejacket before even opening the thread!

Saw it in London and it’s one of the few posters that I bought and kept and hung in my dorm room for years. It’s HUGE.

[SmartAlex]

I had the Whistlejacket poster print framed. Hmmm… I think my sister must have it now. How does one misplace a large art print? LOL!

[RPM]

[QUOTE=Bluey;8002792]
I forgot about those, but yes, those are probably first in line.

Here is the link to the horse in the Napoleon painting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marengo_(horse)[/QUOTE]

Interesting. This is the first that I have heard that Marengo was a pinto.

I have read somewhere that the painting is very “romanticized” and that it is more likely Napoleon rode a sure-footed mule when he crossed the Alps!

A Wikipedia article says Marengo was a grey, imported from Egypt Doesn’t sound pinto to me. But then Wikipedia is so often so wrong. The article about Aristides used to say he was by Lexington and therefore a half-brother to Chesapeake, his running mate in the Kentucky Derby. I have noticed recently that that has been corrected.

[ReSomething]

Is “End of the trail” considered too hokey? Googling it comes up with it not being a genuine work of Remington but he certainly did quite a bit of sculpture, sketches and painting during the 19th century.

[SGray]

[URL=“http://www.thefamousartists.com/edwin-landseer/favorites”]http://www.thefamousartists.com/edwin-landseer/favorites
love this one too

[Plainandtall]

When I was a kid I spent a summer working on the St. Bernard Pass painting (there are multiple copies with variations on the horse color- but to me the grey is the “real” one) in the form of a billion piece jigsaw puzzle- so I had studied that painting for hours and hours. eventually my mom and I wound up moving to Vienna- where I was able to see the painting in person… I was not expecting it, I didn’t know it was there- I just turned a corner into a gallery room and BAM- red cape everywhere- I think my knees almost buckled in amazement to see it huge and in person.

Had a similar experience to see the Horse Fair in NYC.

[Manni01]

ok I am German, so for me this comes to my mind if I think about famous horse paintings… And in this case there is a huge story behind it… I don’t know if you are familiar with the Gurlitt case… It was in the news in Germany and I think there are still discussions about it.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwei_Reiter_am_Strand

this was the story behind it…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Munich_artworks_discovery

[sophie]

And I am French so The horses from Lascaux came to mind, but also Degas and, especially, Delacroix and Géricault

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Géricault-cheval-gris-MuséeRouen.jpg

http://lettres.ac-rouen.fr/francais/Balzac/images/delacroix/cheval.jpg

http://www.insecula.com/PhotosNew/00/00/02/94/ME0000029407_3.JPG

and many others.

[pony_baloney]

[QUOTE=Field of Dreams Mini Horses;8004034]
I got to see Whistlejacket and the Stubbs exhibit when it was here in Fort Worth at the Kimble Art Museum.

[B]INCREDIBLE

[/B]
All of his paintings were incredible, but WJ brought tears to my eyes. It’s HUGE.[/QUOTE]

It is truly amazing to see in person. I’ve gone to the National Gallery several times over the years and know exactly where that painting is located. It’s so huge and so clear and it’s all you can’t take your eyes off it.

How can an artist paint something so large and get it so right?

[shakeytails]

I’m not 5, nor Amish, but I apparently I don’t get out much. I have never before seen Whistlejacket. <cue Geico caveman under a rock line!>

[Beverley]

I’ve been lucky enough to see Whistlejacket too. And I’d go see it again.

[atlatl]

Another Whistlejacket fan. I have a framed print from art.com who offers it in several sizes including the original huge version.

[ThreeFigs]

Viewing Whistlejacket was a religious experience. I wept. Michaelangelo’s “Pieta” had a similar effect on me.

Munnings was fantastic, too.

[Plainandtall]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Dealer_(painting)

The art historians may not agree- but I bet it you go to the man on the street- this horse painting might top Whistlejacket.