I have also been working on the large canvas for a few months. and it has turned into a cavalry charge, which I hope for sure to be able to exhibit in Spring. (translation from the original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek)

version in original Dutch (citaat van Breitner's brief, in het Nederlands:) 't Groote doek heb ik ook eenige maanden onderhanden gehad. en 't is veranderd in een charge van ruiterij, die ik hoop en gegrond in 't voorjaar te kunnen exposeeren.

Quote of Breitner in his letter to A.P. van Stolk, 6 Oct. 1883; from RKD-Archive, The Hague; as cited in the master-thesis Van Gogh en Breitner in Den Haag, Helewise Berger, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, p. 57 | After his return from Paris Breitner finished this large painting and sent it in for the World Exhibition in Antwerp of 1885. In 1881 already he started in The Hague his characteristic theme of 'upcoming cavalry'