Artwork
A Hunting Party
A Hunting Party is an oil painting by the Dutch Golden Age artist Jan Both. It dates from 1650 and is held in the collection of the Bode Museum.
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Technique & Style
A Hunting Party is executed in oil paint on canvas, a combination consistent with Jan Both's standard practice for mid-seventeenth-century landscape painting.
A Hunting Party is executed in oil paint on canvas, a combination consistent with Jan Both's standard practice for mid-seventeenth-century landscape painting. The work is classified as a painting within the landscape genre, depicting a man, a woman, and a horse, figures that situate the scene as a narrative hunting excursion within a broader natural setting. The 1650 date places the work within the period when Both was active in producing Italianate landscapes, and the canvas support aligns with the format typical of his easel paintings of that decade.
No specific information is available regarding the painting's handling, brushwork, surface condition, or stylistic details beyond its landscape classification and medium.
History & Provenance
A Hunting Party is an oil painting on canvas created in 1650 by Jan Both. It entered the collection of the Bode Museum, Gemäldegalerie Berlin, where it remains on display. The work was recorded as being on loan to the Istanbul embassy in 1921 before its accession by the museum.
A Hunting Party by Jan Both (1650) is an oil on canvas landscape painting depicting a man, woman, and horse. It has been part of the Bode Museum, Gemäldegalerie Berlin collection since at least 1921, when it was on loan to the Istanbul embassy, and remains on display there. The work was created in 1650 and has been exhibited at the Bode Museum as part of its permanent display of 17th-century Dutch and German paintings.
Overview
A Hunting Party is a painting by Jan Both, created around 1650. It is an oil on canvas work held at the Gemäldegalerie Berlin.
Subject & Meaning
The painting depicts a hunting scene with a group of people on horseback, accompanied by a dog, in a landscape with trees and rocks. The presence of dead animals suggests the party has been hunting.
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Artist
Jan Dirksz Both was a Dutch painter, draughtsman, and etcher, who made an important contribution to the development of Dutch Italianate landscape painting.
