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Rabbit hunt

Maker

(artist)
1525-1569

(engraver)
1525-1569

(publisher)
ca.1510-1570 (Life dates)

Title

Rabbit hunt

Date of Production

1560

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

Height: 22.2 cm
Width: 29.1 cm

Accession Number

G.1978.PG.1

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Rabbit hunting

Label Text

On a hill overlooking a river, a hunter takes aim at two rabbits as his dog looks on and another hunter appears to stalk him with a spear. The subject may illustrate a proverb: ‘He who pursues two rabbits at once, will lose both’. Bruegel designed numerous engravings for other artists to execute, but this rare etching is the only print he executed himself. The freedom afforded by the etching technique allowed him to render the scene with remarkable naturalism and to vividly evoke light and atmosphere.

Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Exhibition History

Drawings Gallery Display - Bruegel / Not Bruegel, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 16/01/2016-17/04/2016

Bruegel to Freud: Prints from The Courtauld Gallery, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 19/06/2014-21/09/2014

Gallery 4 display, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 2000 (July) ...More

The Art of Etching - Prints from the Courtauld Collection
selected by Christopher Le Brun, London & England, 05/02/1997-25/05/1997 ...Less

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscribed : printed & ink : lower left & recto : the last two digits of the dated mistakenly transposed : BRVEGEL 1506

Inscription: inscribed : printed & ink : lower right & recto : : H. Cock excu :

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