Hunting of the Calydonian Boar has been part of the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent since 1899. It was one of the first works to be donated to the City of Ghent by the Friends of the Museum, a society founded in 1897. It is an early copy of a painting by Peter Paul Rubens. When Oeneus, the king of Calydon, forgot to honour the goddess Artemis during a great thanksgiving feast for the god Dionysus, the goddess sent a giant boar to the region. It destroyed the vineyards and cornfields, killed livestock and forced the local inhabitants to flee. A hunt was organized, and the hero Meleager killed the monstrous beast with a spear.
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Peter Paul Rubens
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| Title | The Caledonian Boar Hunt |
| Period | 17th century |
| Collection | paintings AAT |
| Object type | oil paintings (visual works) AAT |
| Inventory number | 1899-F |
| Acquisition credit |
gift
The Friends of the Museum Ghent 1899 |
| Current whereabouts | Work on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1899-F |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/306/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300033898
history paintings
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300015636 landscapes AAT |
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21D
water (one of the four elements)
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25F animals Iconclass 25F(+49) animals (+ audible means of communication of animal(s): roaring, crying, singing, barking, mewing, neighing, chirping, etc.) Iconclass 25F(+51) animals (+ fighting animals; aggressive relations) Iconclass 25F(+514) animals (+ animal(s) killing) Iconclass 25F2 mammals Iconclass 25G1 plants (in general) Iconclass 25G31 shrubs Iconclass 25G4(GRASS) plants and herbs (GRASS) Iconclass 25H153 bush, shrubs ~ forest Iconclass 25H19 swamps and polders Iconclass 25H2 landscapes with waters, waterscapes, seascapes (in the temperate zone) Iconclass 26A clouds Iconclass 34B11 dog Iconclass 43C11 hunting, chase Iconclass 43C111243 boar-hunting Iconclass 43C1113 bird hunting Iconclass 43C1131 the kill (~ hunting) Iconclass 43C1147 hunting dogs Iconclass 43C39612 fight between animals, e.g. a lion and a bear Iconclass 46C131 riding a horse, ass, or mule; rider, horseman Iconclass 46C13141 horse Iconclass 46C1318 horse in motion Iconclass 9 Classical Mythology and Ancient History Iconclass 94 the Greek heroic legends (I) Iconclass 94N (story of) Meleager Iconclass 94N3 most important deeds of Meleager Iconclass 94N32 the Calydonian hunt Iconclass 94N322 the wild boar is killed, usually by Meleager Iconclass |
| School / Style | Baroque AAT |
| Rubens : Sa vie et ses oeuvres ; Avec 280 gravures dans le texte et 65 photogravures et autotypies hors texte / Max Rooses. - Paris : Ernest Flammarion, 1888 (p. 263, 590) |
| Catalogue du musée de peinture de la ville de Gand, 1900 / Louis Maeterlinck. - Gand : Imprimerie Victor Van Doosselaere, 1900 (nr. 46) |
| Museum van Schoone Kunsten : Catalogus ; Oude Meesters, Schilderstukken, teekeningen, plaatsneden (met geschiedkundig overzicht) / Maurice Dupuis, Georges Charles Nicolas Marie Hulin de Loo, Fritz Van Loo. - Gent : Drukkerij F. De Vos, 1938 ; Gent : Stad Gent, 1938 (p. 120) |
| Chefs-d'oeuvre du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand (exposition itinérante 'Quarante chefs-d'oeuvre du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand' Bruxelles, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 12 février - 6 mars 1949 ; Liège, 12 mars - 3 avril 1949 ; Luxembourg, 9 avril - 1 mai 1949 ; Lille, 14 mai - 12 juin 1949) / Georges Chabot, Paul Eeckhout. - Bruxelles : Editions de la Connaissance, 1949 (nr. 17) |
| Peter Paul Rubens / Léo Van Puyvelde. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] (p. 200, nr. 210; p. 111, nr. 237) |
| Peter Paul Rubens [1969] / Willy Laureyssens. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] (p. 325, 679) |
| Oil sketches of Peter Paul Rubens : A Critical Catalogue / Julius Samuel Held. - Princeton-New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1980 (dl. 1, p. 320, nr. 250) |
| Rubens in Oost-Vlaanderen / B. De Keyser. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] (p. 6) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. I, p. 146-147 (ill.)) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : De collectie (tentoonstelling vanaf 21 maart 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2021 |
| Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand : La Collection (exposition dès le 21 mars 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gand : Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand, 2021 |
| Museum of Fine Arts Ghent : The Collection (exhibition opened on March 21th 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Ghent : Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, 2021 |
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