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Wolf and Fox Hunt
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Title:Wolf and Fox Hunt
Artist:Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, Siegen – Antwerp) and Workshop
Date:ca.
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions 5/8 x 1/8 in.
Peter Paul Rubens' painting "Boar Hunt" () is a work that encapsulates the mastery of the Baroque artist, known for his dynamic compositions and vibrant.
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Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:John Stewart Kennedy Fund,
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This very large hunting scene by Rubens and his workshop was painted in , as the first of the great hunting pictures that the artist produced in this period.
It was soon followed in about by a set of four large hunting scenes for the Duke of Bavaria. One of these, the Hippopotamus and Crocodile Hunt, remains in Munich (Alte Pinakothek); another three went to the museums in Rennes, Marseilles, and Bordeaux in the wake of the Napoleonic wars; and the last was destroyed by fire in Rubens was well aware of the watercolor cartoons that were painted as full-scale models for tapestries of hunting scenes during the s; canvas copies of impo