Wolf hunt

Etienne Delaune

second half 16th century · Pen and black, dark gray, and gray brown ink, and (between the pen lines of the illusionistic frame) brush and gray ink, on vellum. · Robert Lehman Collection

This drawing is a preparatory study by Etienne Delaune for one of a series of six engravings, also by him, representing various hunt scenes. The very same scene is carved on one side of a heron-shaped rock crystal bowl, manufactured in Florence to commemorate the wedding of Grand Duke Ferdinand in 1589.

Artist

Etienne Delaune

Date

second half 16th century

Medium

Pen and black, dark gray, and gray brown ink, and (between the pen lines of the illusionistic frame) brush and gray ink, on vellum.

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Credit line

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975