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| After the Hunt |
Artist:Gustave Courbet (French, Ornans 1819–1877 La Tour-de-Peilz)
Date:ca. 1859
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:93 x 73 1/4 in. (236.2 x 186.1 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929
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 assortment of dead game, including a wild boar, a partridge, a deer, and a hare, a presentation recalling precedents in seventeenth-century Flemish painting. An avid sportsman, Courbet ultimately devoted some eighty pictures to subject of the hunt.
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