Antique prints etching and engraving Village pillé par les Pandoures Hongrois Les soldats

en pandoer was een strijder in een militaire eenheid in het keizerlijke Oostenrijkse leger. Oorspronkelijk waren pandoeren de lijfwachten van edellieden in het Kroatië en Slavonië van de 17e en 18e eeuw.

Jean Baptiste Van Loo (1684-1745) after Karel Breydel (1678-1733)

2 Antique prints, etching and engraving | Village pillé par les Pandoures Hongrois; Les soldats en bonne humeur, published 1746, 1 p.

Name: 2 Antique prints, etching and engraving | Village pillé par les Pandoures Hongrois; Les soldats en bonne humeur, published 1746, 1 p.
SKU: PR120106
Price: 150.00 EUR
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A rare depiction of the pillage of a village by the Trenck’s Pandurs. “The Pandurs were a skirmisher unit of the Habsburg monarchy, raised by Baron Franz von der Trenck following a grant issued by Maria Theresa of Austria on 27 February 1741, permitting Trenck to raise a 1,000-strong troop. The unit was largely composed of men enlisted as volunteers from areas of the Kingdom of Slavonia and Slavonian Military Frontier, consisting of ethnic Croats and Serbs. The Pandurs saw military action in Silesia, Bohemia, Bavaria and France.
[…] The Pandurs did not have specific uniforms—their clothes varied but were of Turkish style. Their oriental appearance was compounded by mandatory head shaving, leaving a rattail, as well as by the use of a horse tail bunchuk instead of a unit banner. Each Pandur carried four single-shot pistols, a fighting knife and a small knife.
[…] The Pandurs earned a reputation for being brave and audacious, as well as feared and ruthless soldiers, looting and pillaging, but also characterized by disobedience, breaches of military discipline and stubbornness.” (Wikipedia)
The army was officially active between 1741 and 1748 and this print falls inbetween these dates: 1746.

Flemish artist Karel (or Carel) Breydel painted several scenes of battles and village pillages.
Plate signed and dated at bottom, with six lines of French text below: Breydel pinx. / J Vanloo Sculp.

Titled: LE VILLAGE PILLE PAR LES PANDOURES HONGROIS. with six lines of text in French.

The other impression is commonly found in museum’s collections. Titled: LES SOLDATS EN BONNE HUMEUR, with six lines of text in French.
The plates are cut within plate mark and mounted on a large sheet of paper with pencil annotations and printed numbers.

[NL] Een zeldzame afbeelding van de plundering van een dorp door de Trenck’s Pandurs. Ets gemaakt door Jean Baptiste Van Loo. Twee antieke prenten op 1 pagina. Een pandoer was een strijder in een militaire eenheid in het keizerlijke Oostenrijkse leger. Oorspronkelijk waren pandoeren de lijfwachten van edellieden in het Kroatië en Slavonië van de 17e en 18e eeuw. Hier zien we de Pandoeren in Hongarije.

SKU: PR120106

Etchings on paper, mounted on folded piece of cardboard with some inscription in pencil; prints ca. 295 x 399 mm; etchings trimmed within plate mark; in very good condition.

€ 181,50 (€ 150,00 ex. btw)

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