Hunting near Hartenfels Castle
1540
- Medium
- oil, originally on wood, transferred to masonite
- Dimensions
- 116.8 × 170.2 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-109293
The Protestant rulers of Saxony commissioned this animated hunt scene, set near their residence seen in the background, Hartenfels Castle (in eastern Germany). John Frederick the Magnanimous, in the bottom left corner, wears dark green hunting attire; he spans his crossbow and waits for his courtiers and dogs to chase a stag across the river. His wife, the Electress Sibylle, stands at right, poised to take the first ceremonial shot. The prince electors of Saxony were passionate practitioners of hunting with dogs—elaborate, highly rehearsed occasions, coordinated by the use of signals from hun…
Provenance
Severance Fund, 1958.425
Registry history
- 1540 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
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