PETER FRIS (Amsterdam, 1627 - Delft, 1706)."Costumbrist Scene with a Horse.Oil on oak panel.It has repainting and two cracks in the panel.Partially illegible signature.Measurements: 32 x 42 cm, 47,5 x 57 cm (frame).This type of genre scene was very common in the Dutch school. Undoubtedly, it was in the painting of the Dutch school where the consequences of the political emancipation of the region, as well as the economic prosperity of the liberal bourgeoisie, were most openly manifested. The combination of the discovery of nature, objective observation, the study of the concrete, the appreciation of the everyday, the taste for the real and the material, the sensitivity to the apparently insignificant, meant that the Dutch artist was at one with the reality of everyday life, without seeking any ideal that was alien to that same reality. The painter did not seek to transcend the present and the materiality of objective nature or to escape from tangible reality, but to envelop himself in it, to become intoxicated by it through the triumph of realism, a realism of pure illusory fiction, achieved thanks to a perfect, masterly technique and a conceptual subtlety in the lyrical treatment of light. As a result of the break with Rome and the iconoclastic tendency of the Reformed Church, paintings with religious themes were eventually eliminated as a decorative complement with a devotional purpose, and mythological stories lost their heroic and sensual tone in accordance with the new society. Portraits, landscapes and animals, still lifes and genre painting were the thematic formulas that became valuable in their own right and, as objects of domestic furniture - hence the small size of the paintings - were acquired by individuals from almost all classes and social classes.Peter Fris was a Dutch painter and art dealer of the Golden Age. He is also known as Pieter Frits van Fritz. This painter was in Rome from 1645 to 1648, where he was a member of the Bentvueghels under the name of Welgemoet. According to Arnold Houbraken, he was given the name Welgemoet van de Bentvueghels because he was surrounded by fireworks during his initiation ritual and bravely endured it. From 1648 onwards he visited various places in the Netherlands. He was a member of the Guild of Saint Luke in Haarlem from 1660 to 1668 and from 1683 of the Guild of Saint Luke in Delft. He painted allegories, history paintings in landscapes. Few of his works are known. A painting depicting Orpheus on Eurydice in the underworld is in the possession of the Prado. According to Houbrakende Fris, he was somewhat ashamed of the painting profession because, in his opinion, it was not respected.