About this artwork
Peter Paul Rubens was very particular about the prints made after his paintings, though he embraced the increased fame that they afforded him. Schelte Bolswert’s engraving of The Lion Hunt ably captures the roiling energy of Rubens’s painting. The older artist proudly discussed this painting in a 1621 letter: “I have almost finished a large picture, entirely by my hand, and in my opinion one of my best, representing a Lion Hunt, with the figures life-sized.” Given the printing process’s usual reversing effect, Rubens may have specifically requested that this engraving appear in the same direction as the painting.
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Currently Off View
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Schelte Adamsz. Bolswert
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Title
- The Lion Hunt
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Origin
- Flanders
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Date
- 1616–1634
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Medium
- Engraving in black on cream laid paper, tipped onto cream laid paper
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Dimensions
- 409 × 586 mm (image); 425 × 590 mm (primary support, trimmed within platemark); 496 × 680 mm (secondary support)
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Credit Line
- The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Fund
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Reference Number
- 2010.48
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