A cavalry battle scene; and A meeting between two leaders on horseback, a cavalry battle beyond

Only two other works are known by Hausser, a small Adoration of the Magi on copper, signed and dated 'JAN HAUSSR VO ACH 1603' (Castle Gallery, Aschaffenburg), and an Ecce Homo, signed 'JOAS HAUSSER V ACH' (Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Bavaria, inv. no. 6421). The depiction of the horses and the crowded composition in the latter work can be compared to those in the present pair. For biographical information on the artist, see Dr. Heinrich Geissler in the catalogue of the exhibition Zeichnung in Deutschland, Deutsche Zeicher, 1540-1640, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, 1978-1980, II, pp. 56-57, J15.

The compositions are after designs for The Dispersal of the Spanish Foe and Giovanni dei Medici persuading the Swiss Army to Retreat by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, for the prints he made for the series Mediciae familiae rerum feliciter gestarum vistoriae et triumphi, published by Philips Galle in 1583. The series of twenty prints depict great victories of the Medici. Stradanus had already worked with Vasari and other collaborators on similar depictions of Medici victories for the Salone dei Cinquecento in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. The young Hendrick Goltzius assisted Galle and signed some of the plates.