Last salute to the counts of Egmont and Horne.

Oil on panel, 37 x 51,5 cm, unsigned (some bulging varnish, small craquelure, overall in good condition).

Under contemp. frame.

A copy after one of Gallait's most succesful compositions, depicting the last greeting of the members of the Brussels archers' guild to the mourned counts in 1568. The work was also known as "Les têtes coupées". The original is now in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts of Tournai (inv. 246). Due to the succes of the painting Gallait himself made many copies between 1851 and 1882, some of which are now in the museum collections of Brussels, Antwerp, Tournai, Brooklyn and Moscow. Together with H. Leys, G. Wappers and N. De Keyser, Louis Gallait (1810-1887) was one of the most succesful romantic history painters of Belgium. One of his favoured subjects was the Dutch revolt in the Southern Low Countries, a subject which had regained importance in the decades after the Belgian Revolution.