# Diana with Her Hunting Dogs beside Kill [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [FYT, Jan]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 79 x 116 cm ## Commentary Game still-lifes were closely connected with kitchen scenes and pantry motifs, of which they were in many ways a special form. While the social context of a kitchen is not always obvious and may be either the household of the landed gentry or the merchant patrician classes, the majority of early, large-format game still-lifes reflected the interests and spheres of royalty and nobility. The hunt as an aristocratic privilege had only just began to emerge at the beginning of early modern times. Hunts were captured in the form of large-scale panoramic paintings. Also there were numerous glorified transpositions of real hunting scenes into mythological ones. This painting shows an example of this approach. <P> <TABLE ALIGN=LEFT CELLPADDING=5 BORDER=1 WIDTH=320 BGCOLOR="\#99CCCC"> <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE><TD><IMG SRC="/support/gif/listen.gif" BORDER=0 VALIGN=MIDDLE> Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 9 minutes\):<BR><A HREF="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/music1/18\_cent/haydn\_autumn\_23-26\_hunt.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true"><B>Joseph Haydn: The Seasons, Part 3 Autumn, aria and chorus \(Hunters' chorus\)</B></A> </TD></TR></TABLE> ## Related artworks - [A Hound with a Rabbit and a Musket in a Landscape]() - [Big Dog, Dwarf and Boy]() - [Bird Concert]() - [Bittern and Ducks Startled by Dogs]() - [Concert of Birds]() - [Dead Game]() - [Dead Partridges with Hound]() - [Diana, Goddess of the Hunt \(detail\)]() - [Diana, Goddess of the Hunt]() - [Diana with Her Hunting Dogs beside Kill \(detail\)]() - [Ducks and Water Hens Surprised by Dogs]() - [Game and Hunting Gear Discovered by a Cat]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()