Gustave Courbet, 1859 - After the Hunt - fine art print

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The over 160 year old work of art was made by the male French artist Gustave Courbet. The 160 years old masterpiece was made with the size: 93 x 73 1/4 in (236,2 x 186,1 cm) and was made with the technique of oil on canvas. Furthermore, the piece of art is included in the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's digital art collection, which is located in New York City, New York, United States of America. We are delighted to reference that the artwork, which belongs to the public domain is being provided with courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929. Creditline of the artwork: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929. What is more, the alignment is in portrait format and has a side ratio of 3 : 4, which implies that the length is 25% shorter than the width. Gustave Courbet was a painter, sculptor, communard, whose artistic style can mainly be classified as Realism. The artist lived for a total of 58 years, born in 1819 in Ornans, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France and passed away in 1877 in La Tour-de-Peilz, Vaud, Switzerland.

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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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