''The Tiger Hunt'' is a large 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 ...

, 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 Maximilian I (17 April 157327 September 1651), occasionally called the Great, a member of the House of Wittelsbach, ruled as Duke of Bavaria from 1597. His reign was marked by the Thirty Years' War during which he obtained the title of a Prince- ...

to decorate the old Schleissheim Palace. The cycle was seized during the

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and this painting is now in Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes. It has been used in 2018 as a piece of staging in promotional materials for the HBO series ''

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Related subjects by Rubens

File:Rubens-Wild-Boar Hunt.jpg, ''

The Wild Boar Hunt ''The Wild Boar Hunt'' is a 1618-1620 oil on oak panel painting by Peter Paul Rubens, now in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden. Related subjects by Rubens File:Peter_Paul_Rubens_083.jpg, ''The Hippopotamus and Crocodile Hunt'' File:L ...

'' 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 ...

'' File:Rubens Peter Paul Lion Hunt APMuenchen.jpg, '' The Lion Hunt'' File:Peter Paul Rubens 083.jpg, ''

The Hippopotamus and Crocodile Hunt The ''Hippopotamus and Crocodile Hunt'' is an oil painting on canvas by Peter Paul Rubens. It was commissioned in 1615 to decorate Schleißheim Palace, along with three other works depicting lion, wolf, and boar hunts. The cycle of paintings was ...

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