After the Hunt
Oil On Canvas- WallArt
1859- Early Medieval
236.0 x 186.0 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gustave Courbet (1819 – 1877)
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In style, scale, and composition, this work strongly resembles Courbet’s first hunting scene, The Quarry, a great success at the Salon of 1857 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston). The present canvas is distinguished by the inclusion of a liveried servant and an assortment of dead game: a wild boar, a partridge, a deer, and a hare, all presented in a manner recalling seventeenth-century Flemish painting. An avid sportsman, Courbet ultimately devoted some eighty pictures to the subject of the hunt.
About this artwork
- Title: After the Hunt
- Artist: Gustave Courbet
- Year: 1859
- Original dimensions: 236.0 x 186.0 cm
- Format: Portrait
- Copyright status: Public domain
- Where to see it: Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Color palette: Earthy
- Purpose: Accent
- Keywords: leisure, composition, flemish style
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