Two Dogs resting in a hilly Landscape

As a painter and curator of paintings, Haag was attached to the court of Stadtholder Prince Willem V of Orange (1748-1806) in The Hague. Haag is best known for his portraits of horses. Dogs, used for hunting - a privilege of the nobility - were likewise an appropriate theme. His watercolour of one of the Stadtholder's horses was sold in these Rooms, 15 November 1993, another is in the Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam, J.W. Niemeijer, Hollandse aquarellen uit de 18de eeuw, exhib. catalogue, Zwolle Amsterdam, 1990, pp. 58-9, no. 23.