Study for "The Bear Hunt" (for the Alcázar, Madrid)

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Study for "The Bear Hunt" (for the Alcázar, Madrid)

Peter Paul RubensLinkedCulture matchlcp-e595aa3a83f9

Date
c. 1639
Medium
oil on wood
Culture
Flanders
Department
European Painting and Sculpture
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
151517

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On June 22, 1639, King Philip IV of Spain received a letter from his younger brother Ferdinand (1609–1641). The letter explained that the artist Peter Paul Rubens had recently completed all of the sketches for a series of paintings that were to hang in the halls of the Alcázar Palace in Madrid. Bear Hunt is one of seven surviving studies out of the original eighteen. In this scene, a bear attacks a hunter and a companion comes to his aide The others work to stave off a second angry bear. The sketch was completed in the last year Rubens's life, and the paintings for the series were never completed. With just a few quick brushstrokes, Rubens evokes the energy and drama of a ferocious hunt.

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Credit line
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
Provenance
(Christie's, London, E. Henstridge sale, April 11, 1930, no. 91, sold to Rothschild) | (A. G. von Frey [Alexander von Frey]) | Nov. 12, 1930 - June 10, 1937: (Thos. Agnew & Sons, London). | June 10, 1937 -: G. Huntington Hartford (1911-2008), New York. | - May 15, 1972: (Newhouse Galleries, New York) | May 15, 1972 - Feb. 13, 1973: (Thos. Agnew & Sons, London) | Private collection | 1979: (Thos. Agnew and Sons, London) | 1980: Private collection, Portugal. | 1983: (Sotheby's, London, sale, June 23, 1983, no. 40, ill.) | 1983: (Newhouse Galleries, New York), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art.

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