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Boar Hunt (left plate)
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Boar Hunt (left plate)

Pieter Claesz. Soutman · 1642 · etching; engraving; paper

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

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From his rearing horse a rider stabs a boar with his sword. A second hunter on horseback approaches behind him. A large pack of dogs rushes at the boar. Left part of a large representation consisting of two parts. At the bottom in the margin half of a verse in Latin about the hunt.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
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Credit lineWildezwijnenjacht (linkerplaat). 1642. Pieter Claesz. Soutman. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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