The Hunted Stag | |
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Artist | Edwin Landseer |
Year | 1833 |
Type | Oil on panel, genre painting |
Dimensions | 40.5 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]