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
Link to Original Record
Record ID
chndm_2019-5-1