Wolf Hunt: Animal Wounded and Attacked by Dogs, from the series Hunting Scenes
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 1/4 × 13 3/8 in. (26 × 34 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926
Accession Number
26.75.12
Art Historical Context
Created in 1829, *Wolf Hunt: Animal Wounded and Attacked by Dogs* belongs to Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps’s series *Hunting Scenes*. Decamps, a leading figure of the French Romantic movement, frequently turned to dramatic animal subjects that captured both the beauty and violence of the natural world. This lithograph, published by Gihaut Frères and Charles Tilt, allowed the artist’s vivid compositions to reach a wide audience beyond the traditional confines of painting. Lithography, still a relatively new printmaking technique in the late 1820s, offered artists fluid lines and rich tonal contras...
About the Artist
Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps|Gihaut Frères|Gihaut Frères|Charles Tilt · 1803–1860
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