Meleager Hunting the Boar

Pseudo-Melioli

model early 16th century (possibly cast 17th century) · Copper alloy with dull brown patina; pierced at the top; remnants of solder on the reverse. · Robert Lehman Collection

The plaquette depicts Meleager on horseback hunting the Calydonian Boar. Other versions are in the Bode Museum, Berlin, the Louvre, Paris, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the figure of Meleager has been derived from an antique sarcophagus relief. This work is an aftercast, possibly from the seventeenth century.

Artist

Pseudo-Melioli

Date

model early 16th century (possibly cast 17th century)

Medium

Copper alloy with dull brown patina; pierced at the top; remnants of solder on the reverse.

Culture

Italian

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Credit line

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975