The Dead Hare

Wenceslaus Hollar|Pieter Boel

1649 · Etching; first state of three · Drawings and Prints

Hollar cleverly adapted this composition from a hunting still life by Pieter Boel, using it to show off his dexterity with the medium of etching through his rendering of fur, feathers, and skins. Images of hunting trophies were popular in the second half of the seventeenth century. Artists treated them with a heightened sense of realism and often portrayed them at life-size in paintings, as Boel did.

Artist

Wenceslaus Hollar|Pieter Boel

Date

1649

Medium

Etching; first state of three

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951