Signed and inscribed 'A Adam gemalt in Vien 1856', this oil by Albrecht Adam (1786–1862) depicts Field-Marshal Radetzky's Lipizzaner stallion in the Spanish Riding School, Vienna.

Albrecht Adam was born in Nördlingen in 1786. He was an avid sketcher and reader as a child, and went on to become one of the foremost German battle and equestrian painters of the nineteenth century.

The painting descended in the family of Graf Carl Grünne, Equerry to the Emperor Franz Joseph, and is published in Dr. Ulrike von Hase-Schmundt's Albrecht Adam und seine Familie zur Geschichte einer Münchner Künstlerdynastie im 19. und 20 Jahrhundert (Munich, 1981), p.78.

Adam's reputation as a chronicler of horses and military life spans the Napoleonic Wars through to the Habsburg era, and his depictions of the Spanish Riding School's celebrated Lipizzaner stallions remain among the most sought-after equestrian subjects of nineteenth-century German painting. Collectors of Austrian equestrian art, Habsburg military history, and Munich School painting will find this a rare survival connecting Field-Marshal Radetzky, one of the most decorated commanders of the Austrian Empire, to Vienna's storied Spanish Riding School tradition.