# The Battle of Wimpfen [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VRANCX, Sebastian]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on copper, 115 x 199 cm ## Commentary The Battle of Wimpfen - Oil on copper, 115 x 199 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg Sebastian Vrancx created the genre of battle scenes in the Low Countries, cavalry pictures of battles sometimes relating to actual historical engagements, in most cases, however, these battlefield scenes do not represent any real event. The Battle of Wimpfen was a battle in the Bohemian Revolt period of the Thirty Years' War on 6 May 1622 near Wimpfen. The forces of the Holy Roman Empire and Catholic League under Marshal Tilly and Gonzalo de Córdoba defeated the Protestant forces of General Ernst von Mansfeld and Georg Friedrich, Margrave of Baden-Durlach. ## Related artworks - [Allegory of Autumn]() - [Allegory of Winter]() - [Ambush]() - [Attack of Robbers]() - [Autumn, Market Scene in the Heart of a Village]() - [Harvest]() - [January \(detail\)]() - [January]() - [Landscape with a Convoy]() - [Landscape with a Deer Hunt]() - [Landscape with Figures Duck Flighting]() - [Landscape with Horsemen at Rest]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()