A Battle Scene

Jacques Courtois, Il Borgognone (Saint Hippolyte 1621 – Rome 1676) . Oil painting on canvas, A Battle Scene by Jacques Courtois, known as Il Borgognone (Saint Hippolyte 1621 - Rome 1676). In the foreground at the far left, a man on the ground, possibly a Turk, is being trampled by horses. He wears red robes and a cone-shaped hat trimmed with fur has fallen from his head. He holds a scimitar in his right hand. Above him is a chestnut horse ridden by a man wearing blue and yellow plumes in his hat and to the right, a white horse rears up on its hind legs, it's rider, another Turk presumably, having fallen from its back. Above, a mounted figure in a suit of armour draws back his right arm and thrusts his sword towards another. More cavalrymen with swords raised are crowded around these figures at the left side of the image. A plume of black smoke rises behind them in the distance at the far left. A dead or dying white horse lies on the ground at centre right and beside it are two dead bodies. Mounted cavalrymen, some wearing armour and firing muskets can be seen beyond the bodies in the distance at the far right. Stourhead, Wiltshire (Accredited Museum)