Aanrijding tussen twee paardenkoetsen 1850 - 1899

Louis Jaugey captured this carriage collision in an etching, revealing more than just a street mishap. Consider the rearing horse—a motif that gallops through art history, symbolizing untamed passions and virility, reaching as far back as ancient Greek equestrian statues. The image before you captures a moment of chaos, a rupture in the decorum of 19th-century life. One sees echoes of this motif in Delacroix’s dynamic compositions, where horses embody raw energy and revolutionary fervor. Here, the rearing horse is not merely an animal in distress, but a conduit for expressing underlying tensions. It is a symbol laden with historical weight, mirroring our own subconscious struggles with control and instinct. Such symbolism reveals how deeply ingrained certain images are in our collective psyche. They resurface, charged with new meanings yet forever tethered to their primal origins.