Hunting Scenes
Aristocratic ritual and rural necessity: the chase across tapestry, print, and canvas, with all its pageantry and violence.
428 public-domain artworks from six world museums · free to view and download
Double-Barreled Wheellock Pistol Made for Emperor Charles V (reigned 1519–56)
Ambrosius Gemlich|Peter Peck, ca. 1540–45
Bowl with a Horseman Spearing a Serpent
Khusrau and Shirin
Hatifi|Suzi, dated A.H. 904/1498–99 CE
Hunters in a Landscape
Jost Amman|Anonymous Flemish weavers|Anonymous, 16th century, ca. 1575–95
The Indian Hunter
John Quincy Adams Ward, 1860, cast by 1883
Plate with a hunting scene from the tale of Bahram Gur and Azadeh
Marble sarcophagus with garlands
Artist's Sketch of Pharaoh Spearing a Lion
Harpsichord
Beaker with Apes
Cylinder seal and modern impression: hunting scene
Standing Cup and Cover Supported by an Enchained Turk
Orthostat relief: lion-hunt scene
A Hunting Scene
Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio), ca. 1494–1500
Design for Decorative Panels with Hunting Scenes Inset
J. S. Pearse, 1854
The Deer Hunt
Chiyoda Castle (Album of Men)
Yōshū (Hashimoto) Chikanobu, 1897
Si le chassuer a froid aux mains..... le lièvre n'a pas froid aux pieds..., from Émotions de Chasse, published in Le Charivari, November 12, 1858
Aaron Martinet|Honoré Daumier|Destouches, November 12, 1858
Hunting in the Field, from the series Hunting Scenes
Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps|Gihaut Frères|Charles Tilt|Gihaut Frères, 1829
Plate
William Adams & Sons, ca. 1830–ca. 1840
Wineglass
Case (Inrō) with Design of Hunter Dismounting Horse (obverse); Two Spotted Deer (reverse)
The Wonderful Shot, from the Magic Changing Cards series (N223) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company
Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company, 1889
The Duck Hunt
Rodolphe Bresdin, 1881
![[Peel Ross with Hunting Trophies] by Horatio Ross](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/peel-ross-with-hunting-trophies-288075.webp)
[Peel Ross with Hunting Trophies]
Horatio Ross, ca. 1856–59
Shirt
The Rabbit Hunters
Thomas Hewes Hinckley, 1850
Two Mounted Arabs Killling a Lion
Antoine-Louis Barye, modeled late 1830s, cast probably before 1875
Six Classes of the Noble and Useful Animal a Horse
Thomas Rowlandson|Thomas Tegg, October 10, 1811
Medieval Hunting Scene
Franz Pforr|Moritz von Schwind, ca. 1807
Case (Inrō) with a Fox from the Kyōgen Play The Fox Hunter (Tsurigitsune); Hunter behind Haystacks from the Kyōgen Play "Hakuzōsu" (reverse)
Shibata Zeshin, 19th century
The Chase
James Sibbald|Thomas Rowlandson, December 1, 1791
Beaker
A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt
Peter Paul Rubens, ca. 1635
The Hamlet on Mountainous Ground
Allart van Everdingen, mid-17th century
Engraved Bowl
Hunting Scene and Lions Attacking Animals
The Veneto, late 16th century
The Rabbit Hunt
Pieter Bruegel the Elder|Hieronymus Cock, 1560
"Hunting Scene", Folio from a Divan (Collected Works) of Mir 'Ali Shir Nava'i
Mir 'Ali Shir Nava'i|Qasim 'Ali of Shiraz, 1580
Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: The Lion Hunt
Marcantonio Raimondi|Antonio Salamanca, ca. 1500–1534
Sickness Spears the Stag and Death Sounds His Horn (from The Hunt of the Frail Stag)
The Stag at Bay (From Incidents in a Stag Hunt)
Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja
Nizami|Maulana Azhar, ca. 1430
Frieze Tile with Two Hunters
南宋 傳陳居中 胡騎春獵圖 團扇|Nomads hunting with falcons
Chen Juzhong, early 13th century
Terracotta alabastron (perfume vase)
Group of the Paidikos Alabastra, ca. 510–500 BCE
Desert Hunting Scene
Hugh R. Hopgood, A.D. 1914–1916; original ca. 1427–1400 B.C.
Return from the Hunt, from the series Hunting Scenes
Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps|Gihaut Frères|Gihaut Frères|Charles Tilt, 1829