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rein of his steed with an expressive movement. The overall color of the image is maintained in olive shades with a few accents of red and pink in the costumes and white horses. Different levels of colour and light intensity are used to separate the different parts of the scene. Casteels does not seem to have been well informed about all of the details of the battle as he gets important details such as the order of the battle and the weapons and banners .
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on several planes against the backdrop of a hilly landscape. In the distance there is a panorama of Vienna. In the crowd of fighters, the figure of Jan III himself is prominent wearing a long silver-gray robe and a purple coat lined with ermine. The monarch is raising his saber while he pulls the
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who had married his wife's sister. His wife operated an art and painting materials business which she had inherited from her parents. Her brother Lucas, who suffered from gout and was a bachelor, lived with the
Casteels family. The couple had two sons called Franciscus en Carolus who likely also
118:(At Dorotheum Vienna auction of 4 October 2000, lot 177). The painting which is signed and dated 1686 depicts the battle against Turkish forces for the relief of Esztergom (called 'Gran' in German), now in Hungary, which took place in August 1685. The Christian troops were under the command of
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The artist and his wife made their wills on 14 January 1709. The wills mention that they were living on the
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in the guild year 1659–1696. As he had already produced a signed work in 1686 it is likely that before becoming a master in the Guild he worked in the family workshop.
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