The Hunts of Maximilian: The Stag Hunt (August)

1528/1530

Bernard van Orley

Artist, Netherlandish, c. 1488 - 1541

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with brown wash and watercolor over black chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of The Brown Foundation, Inc., Houston

  • Dimensions

    overall: 38.8 x 56.8 cm (15 1/4 x 22 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1997.69.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Rev. Canon Henry Hamal, Liège (Lugt 1231) (his sale, Paris, 21-23 January 1805); private collection, France (sale, Druot, Paris, 20 November 1996, no. 175); (W.M. Brady Co., New York); purchased, with funds from the Brown Foundation, by NGA, 1997.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2000

  • Art for the Nation:Collecting for a New Century, NGA, Washington, D.C., 2000-2001, 148, as The Stag Hunt.

2019

  • Bernard van Orley: Brussels and the Renaissance, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 2019.

Bibliography

2002

  • Campbell, Thomas P., ed. Tapestry in the Renaissance, Art and Magnificence. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2002: 335.

Inscriptions

by later hand, upper right verso in pen and brown ink: no. 7 / de Steenput; by later hand, lower center verso in pen and brown ink: Ex. coll. H. Hamal Leod:

Wikidata ID

Q64537334

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