Bear Hunt
Paulus Potter
1649
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
9; 315; 305; 338; 351
About this artwork
height 315 cm x width 351 cm x thickness 9 cm
About the Artist
Paulus Potter · 1625–1654
Paulus Potter (1625–1654) was a Dutch Golden Age painter whose short life — he died at just twenty-eight years of age — belied an artistic achievement of remarkable originality and influence. Born in Enkhuizen in 1625, Potter trained under his father, the painter Pieter Potter, and later in Amsterdam and Delft, where he absorbed the technical standards of the flourishing Dutch painting tradition. ...