Jan Wyck, ca. 1645–1700, Dutch, active in Britain (from ca. 1664)
Title:
Hare Hunting
Date:
ca. 1690
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
56 x 48 inches (142.2 x 121.9 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed in brown paint, lower right: "JWÿck"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.725
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
dogs (animals) | rabbit | hare | hounds (dogs) | horses (animals) | chasing | landscape | genre subject | sporting art | hats | coats | riding habit | cravat | trees | lake | men | woman | water | hunting | running | equestrians | hunters
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Sidesaddle, 1690-1935 (National Sporting Library and Museum, 2018-09-07 - 2019-03-24)The Age of William III and Mary II (The Grolier Club, 1988-12-13 - 1989-01-29)Noble Exercise - The Sporting Ideal in Eighteenth-Century British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-07-14 - 1982-09-19)Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20)
Publications:
An exhibition of fine XVIII and XIXth century sporting paintings : 26th September - 27th October 1962, Illustrated catalogues price five shillings in aid of the olympic games and international equestrian fund , Arthur Ackermann & Son Ltd., London, 1962, fig. 8, DealerCat Arthur AckermannRobert Colls, This sporting life : sport and liberty in England, 1760-1960, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., 2020, p. 372, GV706.35 .C65 2020 (LC) YCBAMalcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 266-267, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)Stephen Deuchar, Noble exercise : the sporting ideal in eighteenth-century British art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1982, pp. 10, 16, 42, no. 28, ND1388 G7 D48+ (YCBA)Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, p. 6, no. 6, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA)English Animal and Sporting Pictures in the Mellon Collection, Apollo, vol. 77,ns#14, April 1963, p. 283, fig. 1, N1 A54 + (YCBA) Another Copy also available in Vertical File: V1168Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , , Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 157 (v.1), no. 298, pl. 225, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, p. 5 (v.1), no. 12, N5220.M45 R69 1964 (YCBA)Walter Shaw Sparrow, A book of sporting painters, John Lane, London, UK & New York, NY, 1931, p. 57, ND1385. S62 + [BRBL]Yale University Art Gallery, Painting in England, 1700-1850, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon : [exhibition at] Yale University Art Gallery, April 15-June 20, 1965, , vol. 1, W. Clowes and sons, New Haven, 1965, p. 65 (v.1), no. 237, ND466 Y35 (YCBA)