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Stag Hunt in a River
1650s
Oil on canvas, 130 x 190 cm
Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
This painting represents a prerogative of aristocrats; even they were permitted to hunt deer only one day per year. The Italianate, rose coloured landscape seems a leisure ground, a never-never land rather than a productive hunting field, even if the run-down cottage hints at the transience of such pleasures.