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Boar Hunt with Shotguns
Artist
Philip Galle
(Dutch, 1537-1612)
Date1578
Mediumengraving
Dimensionsimage: 7 7/8 × 11 1/2 in. (20 × 29.2 cm)
sheet: 10 1/8 × 13 3/8 in. (25.7 × 34 cm)
mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
sheet: 10 1/8 × 13 3/8 in. (25.7 × 34 cm)
mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Sheridan
Exhibition History"Artists as Storytellers," KIA Nay Gallery (Feb. 12 - Nov. 10, 2000).
"Art in An Age of Transition: Northern European Prints from the Collection of the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts," Alfred Berkowitz Gallery UM-Dearborn (Jan. 27 - Apr. 7, 2017).
"Passion on Paper: Masterly Prints from the KIA Collection," March 17 - July 15, 2018, Groos Gallery.Label Text"Galle was the engraver who first published this print in 1578 but the original creator of the image was Johannes Stradanus. He designed it for a set of tapestries for his patrons, the Medici family of Florence.
The Latin inscription speaks to the efficiency of guns over spears in bringing down a dangerous and clever beast like the wild boar. The series to which this print belongs was very popular and reprinted many times. Perhaps we can understand how it was appreciated by centuries of collectors who found hunting to be exciting. For the better part of its early history, a print such as this would have been enjoyed for its story-telling ability. It would have been preserved in a scrapbook-like volume, perhaps with other prints of the hunt, and looked at in a library setting as a book rather than as a wall hanging (written by Nancy Sojka for Passion on Paper: Masterly Prints from the KIA Collection, 2018)."
