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After the Hunt

ca. 1859
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 812

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.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: 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
  • Object Number: 29.100.61
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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