# Figures with Horses by a Stable [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [POTTER, Paulus]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on panel, 45 x 38 cm ## Commentary In the shaded yard in front of a stable, a man attempts to mount his horse with the assistance of another man. The woman standing next to them has momentarily turned her attention away from the infant she is nursing in order to watch the scene. Despite his close observation of nature, Potter offers not a truthful image of life in the country but an idealized vision that would have appealed to the fantasies of the artist's urban clientele. The painting is signed and dated lower left: Paulus Potter f 1647. ## Related artworks - [A Husbandman with His Herd \(detail\)]() - [A Husbandman with His Herd]() - [Cattle and Sheep in a Stormy Landscape]() - [Cows in a Meadow by a Farm]() - [Cows in a Meadow]() - [Cows Reflected in the Water]() - [Deer in the Wood]() - [Diederik Tulp]() - [Driving the Cattle to Pasture in the Morning]() - [Figures with Horses by a Stable \(detail\)]() - [Four Bulls \(detail\)]() - [Four Bulls]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()