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| Keywords: Jan Baptiste Govaerts - Still Life with Dead Game - Walters 371900.jpg Hunting was a major pastime of the nobility and paintings of the hunt were popular By the late 1600s scenes that captured the excitement of the chase or kill gave way to representations of the hunter's trophies guarded by his dog presumably while a meal was being served in the field Hunting wild boar was restricted to the nobility as was hunting with a falcon here hooded as it would have been when out of its cage before being released to go after a heron or other prey The tactile appeal of the rabbit's fur or the pheasant's feathers is enhanced by the refined brushwork rendering minute details and subtle contrasts of texture between 1720 1729 oil on panel cm 36 3 45 5 accession number 37 1900 38662 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome no 620 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 Salute to Belgium Artful Dining The Exhibition The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1994 place of origin Antwerp Belgium Walters Art Museum license 2D Salute to Belgium Jan Baptiste Govaerts Paintings in the Walters Art Museum 18th-century still life paintings of dead game 18th-century still life paintings in the United States 1720s paintings in the United States 1720s still life paintings Hunting horns in art Falcons in art | ||||
