# Cavalry Engagement

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## Artwork

- Artist: [ASSELYN, Jan](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/asselyn-jan-r7176d6aeea8654>)
- Date: 1601-1650
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 66 x 88 cm

## Commentary

This signed and dated painting is an early work that already reveals the mastership of the young Asselyn, who is rightly considered one of the most important landscapists active during the first half of the 17th century. The natural environment and the topographical situation are suppressed here in favour of the battle scene. Asselyn assigns to the spectator the role of an eyewitness amidst the Netherlandish Wars of Independence. Later on, the artist became famous for his landscapes of the Campagna, which date from his sojourn in Italy.

## Related artworks

- [Beggars in front of a Roman Limekiln](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/asselyn-jan-r7176d6aeea8654/beggars-in-front-of-a-roman-limekiln-r9b5935380a0632>)
- [Coastal Scene with Resting Riders \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/asselyn-jan-r7176d6aeea8654/coastal-scene-with-resting-riders-detail-r6668b1ff0edd99>)
- [Coastal Scene with Resting Riders](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/asselyn-jan-r7176d6aeea8654/coastal-scene-with-resting-riders-r74d3f192a40ade>)
- [Italian Landscape with SS. Giovanni e Paolo in Rome](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/asselyn-jan-r7176d6aeea8654/italian-landscape-with-ss-giovanni-e-paolo-in-rome-r86394b7ff3d5c5>)
- [Italian Landscape with the Ruins of a Roman Bridge and Aqueduct](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/asselyn-jan-r7176d6aeea8654/italian-landscape-with-the-ruins-of-a-roman-bridge-and-aqueduct-r72e95d5035808c>)
- [Italianate Landscape with a River and an Arched Bridge](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/asselyn-jan-r7176d6aeea8654/italianate-landscape-with-a-river-and-an-arched-bridge-ra8b0aefda24746>)
- [Italianate Landscape with Peasants and Animals Fording a River](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/asselyn-jan-r7176d6aeea8654/italianate-landscape-with-peasants-and-animals-fording-a-river-redff4cda05159b>)
- [Landscape with Ruins and Hunting Party](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/asselyn-jan-r7176d6aeea8654/landscape-with-ruins-and-hunting-party-r14ac8d25405e12>)
- [Mountainous Landscape with Traveling Herdsmen](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/asselyn-jan-r7176d6aeea8654/mountainous-landscape-with-traveling-herdsmen-r9069de71cc205f>)
- [River Bank with Herdsmen](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/asselyn-jan-r7176d6aeea8654/river-bank-with-herdsmen-r3ea640c31fe635>)
- [The Breach of the Sint Anthonisdijk](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/asselyn-jan-r7176d6aeea8654/the-breach-of-the-sint-anthonisdijk-r7cb04cabceb646>)
- [The Threatened Swan](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/asselyn-jan-r7176d6aeea8654/the-threatened-swan-rb6740bb430e2e4>)

## Attribution

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