1612 (ca.), Peter Paul Rubens, The Calydonian Boar Hunt -- Getty Museum (Los Angeles)
From the museum label:
This recently discovered painting is Rubens's earliest hunt scene. In the early 1610s Rubens devised new and highly influential imagery of great physicality and emotional intensity--heroic combats between man and beast that transformed Baroque art.
The hunt of the Calydonian boar, a terrifying beast sent by the goddess Diana to punish King Oeneus, was a rare subject in painting. Rubens depicts the climax of the myth, when Meleager delivers the mortal thrust of the spear into the boar's shoulder. The robust figures recall the classical sculpture from which he drew his inspiration. Rubens's energetic and varied brushwork relates both to his brilliant oil sketches and to his polished cabinet paintings. He may have kept this work in his studio as a source of inspiration.
1612 (ca.), Peter Paul Rubens, The Calydonian Boar Hunt -- Getty Museum (Los Angeles)
From the museum label:
This recently discovered painting is Rubens's earliest hunt scene. In the early 1610s Rubens devised new and highly influential imagery of great physicality and emotional intensity--heroic combats between man and beast that transformed Baroque art.
The hunt of the Calydonian boar, a terrifying beast sent by the goddess Diana to punish King Oeneus, was a rare subject in painting. Rubens depicts the climax of the myth, when Meleager delivers the mortal thrust of the spear into the boar's shoulder. The robust figures recall the classical sculpture from which he drew his inspiration. Rubens's energetic and varied brushwork relates both to his brilliant oil sketches and to his polished cabinet paintings. He may have kept this work in his studio as a source of inspiration.