John Sloan

The Boar Hunt

1904

A detailed etching by John Sloan depicting a chaotic hunting scene with several figures in a forest. One person has fallen to the ground while another aims a spear, and a third person, wearing a hat, observes. The caption reads "The animal they were hunting passed quite near them." The artwork is from "The Webers," specifically "Madame Pantalon" by Paul De Kock, and is copyrighted 1904 by The Frederick A. Stokes Company.
A detailed etching by John Sloan depicting a chaotic hunting scene with several figures in a forest. One person has fallen to the ground while another aims a spear, and a third person, wearing a hat, observes. The caption reads "The animal they were hunting passed quite near them." The artwork is from "The Webers," specifically "Madame Pantalon" by Paul De Kock, and is copyrighted 1904 by The Frederick A. Stokes Company.

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Date
1904

Classification
Prints

Medium
Etching

Dimensions
Sheet: 5 3/8 × 8 5/16in. (13.7 × 21.1 cm) Plate: 3 11/16 × 5 5/8in. (9.4 × 14.3 cm)

Accession number
36.67

Series
Madame Pantalon by Charles Paul De Kock

Edition
Ed. 1,000 | Fourth state

Publication
Printed by Richard W. & Gustav A. Peters; published by The Frederick J. Quinby Company

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase

Rights and reproductions
© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

API
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John Sloan
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