Landscape with a Deer Hunt

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In this scene, lit by random flashes from above, huntsmen pursue a fallow deer through a luxuriant glade, cleared of large-leafed trees and carpeted with reeds and low shrubs.

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About the Artist

Sebastian Vrancx

1573 – 1647

Flemish painter of lively episodic scenes depicting genre subjects or military skirmishes. He was influenced by contemporary Italian painting and the work of Pieter Bruegel the Elder.

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