Twenty-one dogs run and eight pale-skinned men on horseback gallop from right to left across a grassy field in this horizontal landscape painting. Most of the dogs are white with tawny brown spots but a few are darker brown. At the back of the pack, some of the men raise riding crops over the brown, black, or white horses. The men wear tailcoats, shirts, riding pants, boots, and hats in shades of brown, blue, golden yellow, and black. A ninth man runs on foot, hat in hand as he gestures at something to our left. Another man chases after a rearing brown horse to our right beyond this group,…
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Hunting Scene with a Pond

painter American 18th Century

18th century

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 65.8 x 127.4 cm (25 7/8 x 50 3/16 in.) ; framed: 72.7 x 134 x 3.1 cm (28 5/8 x 52 3/4 x 1 1/4 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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