Departure for a horse battle, 1834
MediumWatercolour, India ink, pen, heightened with white
Sheet dimensions6,9 × 13 cm
About the workIn a letter from 1834, the young Caspar Scheuren drew the musical notation and three verses from the riding song “Wohl auf, Kameraden, aufs Pferd” (“On your horses, comrades”) from Friedrich Schiller’s “Wallensteins Lager” (Wallenstein’s Camp; 1798), the first drama in a trilogy of the same name. The play chronicles the fate of Wallenstein, a commander general who begins to rebel against his emperor, Ferdinand II, during the Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648). Rather than depicting the horsemen in seventeenth-century costumes, Scheuren set them in his own era.
AccessionAcquisition 1917
Provenanceo.D. Sammlung Ohse; o.D. Sammlung Rudolf Philipp Goldschmidt, Berlin; 13.11.1917 angekauft
Inventory numberK 1917-221
