A Hunting Party at Marly (late 1600s–early 1700s): Art, History and Details
A Hunting Party at Marly at the Cleveland Museum of Art: late 1600s–early 1700s, Graphite and gray washes; framing lines in brown ink. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
A Hunting Party at Marly (late 1600s–early 1700s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Jean Baptiste Martin, Le Vieux (French, 1659–1735).
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
This drawing represents a royal hunt like those known to have taken place at King Louis XIV’s hunting lodge at Marly, located just outside of Paris. Dwarfed by enormous trees, men on foot and horseback, accompanied by musicians carrying French horns, prepare themselves for a hunt while a pack of dogs run in excitement of chasing their prey.
Object facts
- Title: A Hunting Party at Marly
- Date: late 1600s–early 1700s
- Creator attribution: Jean Baptiste Martin, Le Vieux (French, 1659–1735)
- Culture: France
- Type: Drawing
- Technique: Graphite and gray washes; framing lines in brown ink
- Dimensions: Sheet: 51.7 x 36.7 cm (20 3/8 x 14 7/16 in.)
- Collection: DR - French
- Department: Drawings
- Accession number: 2017.211
Collection credit
Bequest of Muriel Butkin
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See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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