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The artist travelled extensively in Russia, Syria and North Africa, and lived in Paris from 1862 until the Franco-Prussian War, when he returned to Germany. The events of that war may well have inspired him to create this harrowing painting, although the terrain suggests that it may be a Cossack subject. Horses were a favourite subject of Schreyer's: he is best known for his romantic paintings of Arab horsemen. Here, sombre colours accentuate the subject matter, the pity of war. The driver and one of the horses of a military wagon lie dead on the barren ground amid a desolate landscape. The remaining horse, held fast by its harness, is slowly starving to death, whipped by a merciless wind. Schreyer exhibited ‘Abandonnée!’, no. 1394, at the Paris Salon of 1867.
Title
Abandoned
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 130 x W 250 cm
Accession number
1888.3
Acquisition method
purchased from the Marton Hall sale, 1888
Work type
Painting
Inscription description
artist's inscription : : blc : artist's name : Ad. Schreyer
