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Men Hunting Bulls with Eagles

Cooper Hewitt

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Object Details

Artist

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Description

In a landscape of rolling terrain, men use birds to hunt wild bulls. Trees frame the composition at left and right, and the hunters appear on horseback in the background at right. Two bulls have fallen in the foreground, while others gallop through the center of the image. The birds—traditionally identified as falcons, although possibly eagles—alight on the heads of their prey, likely blinding them. This hunting method is probably described in an as yet unidentified ancient text.

Credit Line

Museum purchase from the Members' Acquisitions Fund of Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum

Date

ca. 1600

Accession Number

2019-5-1

Restrictions & Rights

CC0

Object Name

Drawing

Type

Drawing

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, white heightening on buff laid paper

Dimensions

19.7 × 29.1 cm (7 3/4 × 11 7/16 in.)

made in

Florence, Italy

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Data Source

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Metadata Usage

CC0

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq49c1cb382-adc2-43cf-a8f2-4389c8b2bf0b

Record ID

chndm_2019-5-1

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