Die Eberjagd
Anthonis van Dyck mit Frans Snyders(?) (1599-1641)

Die Eberjagd,

1618/20
Material / Technology / Carrier
Leinwand
Dimensions of the object
202,6 x 302 cm
Displayed
AP OG Saal VIII
Department
Flämische Malerei
Genre
Malerei
Inventory number
311
Acquisition
1806 aus der Galerie Düsseldorf
Stock
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Alte Pinakothek München
Citation
Anthonis van Dyckmit Frans Snyders(?), Die Eberjagd, 1618/20, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Alte Pinakothek München, URL: https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/en/artwork/JzG6oPJ4WO (Last updated on 17.10.2023)
In 1618, van Dyck was admitted to Antwerp’s Guild of Saint Luke, thus acknowledging him as a master painter. Nevertheless, he stayed on in Rubens’s workshop before travelling to England in 1620. Although based on Rubens’s hunting scenes, this painting exhibits its own independent features with its frieze-like pictorial composition taken from Classical reliefs. The figurative staffage is by Van Dyck; the animals were executed by Frans Snyders who was working on the subject of hunting with hounds at this time. Another version of this painting can be found in the Gemäldegalerie in Dresden.

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