Hunting and fishing scenes
Details
- Palette
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- Medium
- Linen and cotton
- Dimensions
- W. 39 in. (99.1 cm), L. 81 1/8 in. (206.1 cm)
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Holding institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Image provider
- metropolitan-museum-of-art
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- Rogers Fund, 1983
Art Genome Taxonomy
10 tags
Subject Matter
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Figures in Nature Both · 98%
The printed scenes show groups of people outdoors within wooded and mountainous settings; the catalog identifies fishing and hunting as the subjects.
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Animals Both · 98%
Dogs, game animals, and birds are visible in the scenes, and hunting is identified in the catalog title and subjects.
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Flora Visual · 97%
Trees, shrubs, flowering branches, grasses, vines, and other botanical forms occupy much of the textile design.
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Landscapes Visual · 96%
The scenes include open ground, water, distant mountains, rocky formations, and expansive areas of sky.
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Leisure Both · 88%
The figures are presented in outdoor hunting and fishing scenes, activities identified by the catalog and depicted as composed social episodes.
Visual Qualities
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Patterns Visual · 95%
Repeated botanical clusters and ornamental branches recur across the pale ground and around the figural scenes.
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Highly Detailed Visual · 93%
The design contains finely rendered foliage, costumes, animals, architectural features, landscape details, and outdoor equipment at a relatively small scale.
Time Periods
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18th Century Art Metadata · 99%
The catalog dates the work to 1769.
Materials
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Natural Fibers Metadata · 99%
The catalog identifies the medium as linen and cotton; the fiber content cannot be independently verified from the image.
Textiles
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Textile Arts Both · 99%
The image shows a long decorated textile panel, and the catalog classifies it as a printed textile length.
Source & rights
Robert Jones. Hunting and fishing scenes. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.