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Willem van Aelst, Still Life with Dead Game, 1661, National
Gallery of Art, Washington, Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund 1982.36.1 |
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Adolphe Braun, Hare and Ducks (detail), c. 1865,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1947. (47.149.52),
© 1996, The Metropoltan Museum of Art |
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William Michael
Harnett, After the Hunt (detail), 1884, The Butler
Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
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In
the 1880s Harnett spent six years in Europe, studying old
master still-life painting. In Munich, he was exposed to the photographs
by Adolphe Braun. Braun's flat, textured pictures of dead game, hunting
implements, and horns suspended against a textured wall would have a profound
effect on Harnett's work.
 
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