1540
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
Boar Hunt is a 1540 by Virgil Solis, a Renaissance work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
The painting shows two hunters in a forest chasing a wild boar. One man aims a long spear while the other watches. The boar runs toward us, its dark shape sharp against the trees. This scene was common in 1500s Germany, where hunting wild boar was both sport and danger. Boars could trample crops or attack people, so these hunts were serious work. Solis painted it with fine details—look at the leaves and the hunters’ clothes. If you like this, try another work by Virgil Solis.
Virgil Solis or Virgilius Solis (1514 – 1 August 1562), a member of a prolific family of artists, was a German draughtsman and printmaker in engraving, etching and woodcut who worked in his native city of Nuremberg.
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