Lot 13*,TP
Roelandt Savery(Courtrai 1576-1639 Utrecht)A wild boar hunt
3 December 2025, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£15,000 - £20,000
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Roelandt Savery (Courtrai 1576-1639 Utrecht)
A wild boar hunt
indistinctly signed '***ANDT' (on rock, lower left)
oil on canvas
115 x 152.5cm (45 1/4 x 60 1/16in).
indistinctly signed '***ANDT' (on rock, lower left)
oil on canvas
115 x 152.5cm (45 1/4 x 60 1/16in).
Footnotes
Provenance
Sale, Chassaing-Rivet-Fournie, Toulouse, 2 June 1997, lot 14 (hammer price FF 400,000)
Private Collection, USA
Presumably painted after the artist's arrival in Utrecht, the present Wild Boar Hunt is one of a number of large-scale hunting scenes by Roelandt Savery. In the 1620s the artist was very much in demand and by this point, Savery had started to introduce more hunting scenes and dramatic images of fighting animals into his previously peaceful and idyllic landscapes for which he had become so well known.
In his monograph on the artist, Müllenmeister cites a particular interest in this subject, the Wild Boar Hunt, by Savery with numerous examples known: one of the earliest being the small Eberjagd, on panel, which is now in the Bavarian State Collections (acc. no. 271). In his later hunting scenes, the animals come to dominate the space with little room left for the landscape, a departure from Savery's earlier works. A further example of a larger scale composition can be found in the Bison attacked by three dogs, now at the Broelmuseum, Kortrijk (acc. no. 52, 125 x 166cm.) or the Lion and Bull offered by Im Kinsky, Vienna, 13 October 2009, lot 43 (circa 1628, on canvas, 116.5 x 140 cm).