Hand-painted in oil
About this Artwork
The hunt, as a category
Gustave Courbet dated this canvas 1864 and the catalogue files it under both landscape and animal art. The hunt is one of the five working categories this catalogue uses to sort equine painting — alongside the court portrait, the battle, the racecourse and field labour — and it has its own conventions: the horse is in motion or checked mid-motion, the rider is occupied with something other than the viewer, and the ground matters as much as the animal.
Where the record stops
The title says the rider is recovering a trail, which places the moment in the middle of the chase rather than at its start or its kill. Beyond that the record is thin: it carries no dimensions, and it does not describe the terrain, the quarry or the season. Nothing further is claimed here.
What the record holds
1864, held at the Yale University Art Gallery. The measured palette is ochre and yellow — the register of dry ground and low light rather than of green pasture.
Sources
2 references- Courbet, Gustave — Getty ULAN
French painter and designer, 1819-1877
- Gustave Courbet — Wikipedia
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (UK: KOOR-bay; US: koor-BAY; French: [ɡystav kuʁbɛ]; 10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could se
