The Dead Hare
Wenceslaus Hollar Bohemian
After Pieter Boel
Not on view
Hollar cleverly adapted this composition from a hunting still life by Pieter Boel, using it to show off his dexterity with the medium of etching through his rendering of fur, feathers, and skins. Images of hunting trophies were popular in the second half of the seventeenth century. Artists treated them with a heightened sense of realism and often portrayed them at life-size in paintings, as Boel did.
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