The Hunted Stag

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The Hunted Stag
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer - Deer and Deer Hounds in a Mountain Torrent - Google Art Project.jpg
Artist Edwin Landseer
Year1833
Type Oil on panel, genre painting
Dimensions40.5 cm× 99.8 cm(15.9 in× 39.3 in)
Location Tate Britain , London

The Hunted Stag is an 1833 oil painting by the British artist Edwin Landseer. It shows a stag hunted by hounds in a mountain stream. It is the first in a series of works by Landseer featuring stags at bay. It is also known by the alternative title Deer and Deer Hounds in a Mountain Torrent. [1]

The work was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1833 at Somerset House in London. It received less attention than Landseer's other submission A Jack in Office , but was praised in the The Athenaeum for it's "truth exalted by feeling and skill". [2] Today the painting is in the collection of the Tate Britain in Pimlico. [3]

References

  1. Ormond p.81
  2. Ormond p.81
  3. "'Deer and Deer Hounds in a Mountain Torrent ('The Hunted Stag')', Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, ?1832, exhibited 1833".

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