Keywords: The Cavaliers - Los Caballeros.miniature painting & over-written message.post-card art.unsigned.circa-1904.Sgouros collection-item 1.scan.03.obverse-inverted.jpg en Inverted image to facilitate reading of the text The Cavaliers - Los Caballeros; 2 horsemen in full military uniform with red tunics riding across a countryside From the uniforms could be anything from Napoleonic era N I to contemporary to the 1890s-1900s miniature painting over-written message on a post-card unsigned circa-1904 Sgouros collection-item 1 scan jpg Impressionist style; somewhat resembling anticipates a modern-art romantic-novel book-cover of the 1960s-1970s Spanish Impressionist school Madrid-style ; circa 1904 - postcard message is dated 28 Octobre 1904 therefore presumably the artwork was created some time before this date Especially given that the oil paint has been overwritten was presumably already dry at the time The painting is executed in oils on a fairly heavy-guage brown cardstock; unsigned artist not known The image fills the central-right portion of one side of the card with an irregular border; overwritten with the post-card's message-content inverse to the orientation of the image in ink pencil Condition is generally good; some blotches wear scuffing corners slightly worn exact original shade of the cardstock uncertain but it was almost certainly some shade of cardboard-brown to begin with Address postage stamp postmarked on reverse; postmark not yet read TARJETA POSTAL UNION POSTAL UNIVERSAL ESPANA Exposicion Martinez Hortaleza I -- Madrid Hortaleza is an area of Madrid Private collection fam Sgouros This upload made possible by Elios Jessie Sgouros scan of original artwork; created by the uploader unsigned artist not yet identified circa 1904 PD-old Opposite-orientation scan at 200px scan of the reverse at 200px Notes I have uploaded this item here rather than at English Wikipedia in the hopes of attracting more interest potential scholarship in researching the origins the artist IF anyone wants to seriously dispute the copyright status please transfer to wp/EN rather than just delete Paintings Art of Spain 1904 in Spain 1900s art Miniatures 1900s postcards of Spain Cavalry in paintings Impressionist paintings of people Impressionist paintings of horses Impressionist paintings in Spain Manuscripts in Spanish |