Technical notes: The support consists of a single piece of coarse fabric woven in a plain-weave technique. Faint cusping is visible in the upper edge. The painting has been lined. The ground has been applied thickly and evenly and covers the structure of the fabric. The figures in the foreground, like the horsemen, horses and carriage, are rendered opaquely with small fine details in impasto in white. The paint layer with the landscape and figures in the background has been applied thinly and the figures have been painted over the background. Shadows are rendered in brownish tones. The foliage in the background has turned blue as a result of the fading of the yellow. The brushwork is somewhat stiffer than in nos. 132–133 and the execution is not as sketchy. The painting is in poor condition and underwent conservation treatment in 1953.

Provenance: Bequeathed by C. A. and Maria Redin in 1917.

Bibliography: Granberg 1886, p. 249–250, no. 429; Granberg 1912, p. 37, no. 144; NM Cat. 1958, p. 122; NM Cat. 1990, p. 217.

This painting, which is signed “A.F.V. Meulen” on the rear of the caléche in the middle ground of the painting to the right was donated to the Nationalmuseum by C. A. and Maria Redin in 1917. It has been painted with a wealth of detail on a panel and the composition is layered, the foreground in shadow, the middle ground in a lighter tone and the background fading into blue. A vanishing point is indicated in the centre of the painting through an opening in the landscape framed by the trees in leaf in the middle ground. To the right in the foreground a man is depicted who seems to have fallen and close to him is a man in armour on horseback raising his sword. The horseman appears to be making for the covered wagon portrayed to the right in the painting, which is drawn by a pair of horses. A man with a sword at his side is standing next to the wagon talking to the man sitting in it. Somewhat further into the picture we see another man with a sword on a white horse heading towards the wagon. To the left in the foreground a man riding a brown horse is depicted with his sword drawn. The attackers seems to be chasing a man away, who can be seen running out of the picture to the left in the foreground. A fight is taking place in the middle ground and somewhat further away in the work there are renderings of additional figures, among them a horseman and a man on foot. To the right in the middle ground we can see a house of brick.

This motif depicts an attack by soldiers on the covered wagon and also against a number of figures in civilian clothes in the work. Stylistically the composition resembles a battle painting that belongs to the Galerie de l’Etat de Bavière in Munich.1 There are manifest resemblances between the Nationalmuseum’s painting and the one in Munich in the depiction of the foreground in shadow, the trees that frame the middle ground and the house depicted to the left, the central opening on to the landscape, the horsemen and other figures positioned in the work and the wagon depicted to the right in the painting. The rendering of the trees, foliage and figures in the two works are also comparable. KS

1 This painting has been given the title Convoi militaire and can be seen in