Two Gentlemen Shooting
Under the warm midday sun, the men and dogs have hit their stride. The pointers have flushed a bird, a shot rings out, and a partridge plummets to earth, feet in the air. The sport of bird hunting in eighteenth-century England changed from trapping birds with grain and nets to shooting them with a muzzle-loading gun while they were on the wing. Thus, in Stubbs’s day, “shooting flying” would have challenged fowlers, who needed a steady aim and an awareness of nature to bring in their modest catch.
ジョージ・スタッブス(1724 – 1806)
ジョージ・スタッブズ(1724-1806)は、動物解剖学に精通した英国の画家。特に馬の絵画で知られ、「ホイスルジャケット」は代表作。ロマン主義の先駆者として、18世紀美術史に名を刻む。
作品詳細
- 作品名: Two Gentlemen Shooting
- 作家: ジョージ・スタッブス
- 制作年: 1769
- 作品サイズ: 99.0 x 125.0 cm
- 技法: Landscape
- 著作権の状態: パブリックドメイン
- 動勢: Rococo
- 主要な色: Putty
- キーワード: oil on canvas , stubbs artwork , hunting dogs
- 色相: Ochre to Sepia


