''The Lion Hunt'' is a 1621 painting by
Peter Paul Rubens
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (; ; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat from the Duchy of Brabant in the Southern Netherlands (modern-day Belgium). He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque traditio ...
, now held in the
Alte Pinakotheek in
Munich
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. It shows two lions attacked by hunters on horseback and on foot. It marks the end of an intensive creative phase for Rubens centered on the theme of hunting. It has the dimensions of 377 by 249 cm (148,2 x 97,9 inches)
Related subjects by Rubens
File:Peter_Paul_Rubens_083.jpg, '' The Hippopotamus and Crocodile Hunt''
File:Rubens-Wild-Boar_Hunt.jpg, '' The Wild Boar Hunt''
File:La_Chasse_au_loup_et_au_renard_-_Rubens.jpg, ''The Wolf and Fox Hunt
''The Wolf and Fox Hunt'' is an oil-on-canvas painting by Peter Paul Rubens, executed ''c.'' 1616, now held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It shows mounted and walking hunters chasing two wolves and three foxes. It marks the begi ...
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File:Peter Paul Rubens 110.jpg, ''The Tiger Hunt
''The Tiger Hunt'' is a large painting by Peter Paul Rubens, featuring a hunt for a tiger. It dates to between 1615 and 1616 and is one of the four hunting paintings, commissioned by Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria to decorate the old Schleisshe ...
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Bibliography
*Arnout Balis, ''Hunting Scenes'', vol. 2, Oxford University Press and Harvey Miller Ltd, coll. Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, 1986, 406 p. (, lire en ligne), partie XVIII
*David Rosand, ‘Rubens's Munich Lion Hunt: Its Sources and Significance’, ''The Art Bulletin'', College Art Association, vol. 51, no. 1, March 1969, pp. 29–40
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1621 paintings
Paintings by Peter Paul Rubens
Collection of the Alte Pinakothek
Lions in art
Horses in art
Hunting in art
Paintings about death