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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Figures on horseback in the left foreground are shown riding towards the middle distance, hunting a stag. The catching of the stag is represented in the pendant (inv. no. P 54). Hunting has long had aristocratic associations. During the seventeenth century a revival of hunting scenes occurred in art. Many Flemish artists, including Wyck, Rubens and Snyders, represented this theme in their paintings to appeal to a broad clientele comprising the upper and middle classes. These paintings appealed to the middle classes because of their desire to emulate an upper-class lifestyle. | Subjects: | dog); figure landscape; animal (horse | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Wyck, Jan (Dutch painter, ca. 1640 - 1700, active in England) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8850... | Go to resource |
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