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The staffage (figures in a painting) is by Nicholaes Berchem, the landscape by Jan Hackaert. Two artists sharing the making of a painting was quite usual at the time. Hackaert’s birch forest has a high canopy of feathery leaves that allows light to filter through to the calm river. Berchem’s lively figures and animals give the drama to the painting: the dogs at the heels of the stag, the riders surrounding them ready to attack, the boy horn blower splashing through the water in his cuffed boots.
Title
A Stag Hunt in a Forest
Date
probably about 1660
Medium
Oil on canvas
Measurements
H 99.7 x W 120 cm
Accession number
NG829
Acquisition method
Bought, 1871
Work type
Painting
