Boar Hunt (1717): Artwork and History

Boar Hunt (1717) is in the Art Institute of Chicago collection. The museum lists its creator attribution as Gerhard Janssen Dutch, 1636-1725.

The work and its context

The Art Institute of Chicago describes the work:

A stained-glass painter from Utrecht, Gerhard Janssen was also an experimental etcher, though he produced fewer than a dozen landscapes in total. All of them were deeply etched on iron plates and share an idiosyncratic solarizing effect created by the artist’s reversal of the usual relationship of light and dark. He stopped out the areas that were to remain white before immersing the plates in acid, with the result that his figures glow, almost as if they too were part of a window. The date and Janssen’s signature appear in reverse, another indication of his unfamiliarity with the medium.

Object facts

• Title: Boar Hunt
• Date: 1717
• Artist attribution: Gerhard Janssen Dutch, 1636-1725
• Place of origin: Netherlands
• Medium: Etching and aquatint on ivory laid paper
• Dimensions: Image: 19.8 × 28.8 cm (7 13/16 × 11 3/8 in.); Plate: 20.8 × 29.4 cm (8 1/4 × 11 5/8 in.)
• Type: Print
• Department: Prints and Drawings
• Reference number: 1956.1214

Collection credit

Hannan Fund

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