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Peter Paul Rubens
The Wolf and Fox Hunt
1616 — Metropolitan Museum of Art; Joseph Bonaparte; Louisa Baring; Philippe-Charles, 3rd Count of Arenberg; Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton; Diego Felipez de Guzmán, 1st Marquis of Leganés; Bingham Baring, 2nd Baron Ashburton · New York CityThe 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 beginning of an intensive creative phase in which Rubens focused on the theme of hunting. The painting was completed with the help of assistants, although the wolves were painted entirely by Rubens. By 67 the canvas had been trimmed at the top and left to fit into a client's home.
Subject
equestrianism, hunting, Canis lupus, man, fox, woman