Over the past few weeks I’ve featured some colorful horse art collections and this week is no exception. Today it’s all about the blondes, those handsome and fair animals we call palominos.
Colorful Genetics
This color comes from a chestnut horse that is affected by a creme dilution gene (sound confusing?). Equine genetics is incredibly involved, good thing these artists didn’t need to understand them to paint pretty palominos. Be sure to also check out the art of white (pt. 2), black (pt. 2), red & pinto horses.
Christoph Bernard von Galen on Horse – Wolfgang Heimbach
Horse Attacked by a Lion – George Stubbs
Jean VI d’Aumont – Unknown
King Louis XIV – Charles Le Brun
Unknown
Bathing of a Horse – Valentin Serov
Fraser with Mr. Miller Up – Cornelius Krieghoff
Whistlejacket
Allegorical scene with Napoleon – Józef Peszk
Not A Big Color
The palominos aren’t as highly represented as some of the other colors which is a shame, blondes do make lovely subjects. If you prefer other colors of the horse rainbow be sure to check out the rest. white (pt. 2) | black (pt. 2) | red | pinto
Nice collection. Thanks for sharing.
The “Horse Attacked by Lion” painting is beautiful, yet sad….
This series was a lot of fun to put together. Seeing horse art categorized by coat color provides a unique perspective on the art itself. I’m so glad you like them. 🙂
And just to make things more complicated I read somewhere that there is no such thing as a purebred palomino arabian, but there are arabians that look palomino but the genes aren’t the same. Picky, picky. I think they are all beautiful, even if we don’t take a microscope to them.
I really love that Whistlejacket horse, forever in that magnificent pose.
Did you see my collection .. I sent it to you
Whistlejacket! I could see this original picture in London once, it is big and great! In German language we see the palomino colour diffrent, I think. The redbrown and blondes, like whistlejacket, we call “Füchse” (Foxes) and the very light sort is called “Isabell”, they look like the chinese horse here, are also called Palomino. But maybe it is different also in your language and I make a mistake?
The “Horse Being Attacked By A Lion” one reminds me of the page about Predators Riding Horses. I Love Horses and ESPECIALLY Palominos!!!!!
Snoo.
Loved Whistlejacket and although George Stubbs’ The horse attacked by a lion was eye catching but certainly not restful so quite distressing. 🙁
Hi, the old Japan paind is: Sumimoto Hosokawa on horseback, painted by Motonobu Kano in 1507