After the Hunt
Artist: Gustave Courbet (French, 1819–1877)
Original Dimensions: 93" x 73 1/4"
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
About Artwork: (ca. 1859) "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." - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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