Wolf and Fox Hunt

Copy after Rubens's "Wolf and Fox Hunt"

Copy after Rubens's "Wolf and Fox Hunt"
Artist:Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (British, London 1802–1873 London)
Date:ca. 1824–26
Medium:Oil on wood
Dimensions:16 x 23 7/8 in. (40.6 x 60.6 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1990
Accession Number:1990.75

Preparing to undertake his first major painting, The Hunting of Chevy Chase (City Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham), the young Landseer made a pilgrimage to sketch Rubens's Wolf and Fox Hunt (Metropolitan Museum), a picture that had recently been acquired by Alexander Baring, later Lord Ashburton. Not only the subject but also the bravura brushwork and sparkling, transparent lighting effects reveal Landseer's fascination with Rubens's art. Hunting scenes never went out of fashion in the country houses of Britain, and Landseer quickly became the acknowledged modern master of the genre.

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