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Napkin with a hunting scene
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Napkin with a hunting scene

c. 1690 - c. 1699 · satijnbinding; damask; linen (material)

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

Linen damask napkin with a hunting scene. Central field: the asymmetrical pattern shows one scene with a boar hunt. Centrally, a boar moving to the right surrounded by a hunter on horseback facing right at the top, with a lowered hunting spear (dressed in justaucorps, boots, wide-brimmed and buckled hat, and wig), a hunter to the left and right of the boar, and two hunters with muskets at the bottom. Between them, trees, and below them a fox, a roe deer, hares, and rabbits. At the top, a view of a hamlet and a forest, in which a stag pursued by dogs, and to the left and right of a tree trunk a squirrel. Standing and lying borders: symmetrical floral and leaf palmettes framed by a plain band with small rosettes; outside this, a block border. Corners: a stylized flower.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Subjects
napkin
Credit lineServet met een jachttafereel. c. 1690 - c. 1699. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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