# The Boar Hunt [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PARROCEL, Joseph]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 109 x 104 cm ## Commentary A group of hunters, some on horseback and others on foot, attack a wild boar. The hunters' dogs join in the attack, whilst two horsewomen look on approvingly. In the background a man blows a bugle. The two paintings are not allegories of Europe and Asia respectively, as was once thought, but are a pair of gallant hunting scenes. In the painting Parrocel may well have borrowed figures from engravings of hunting scenes by Antonio Tempesta and after Rubens. ## Related artworks - [Battle by the Windmill]() - [St John the Baptist Preaching]() - [The Crossing of the Rhine by the Army of Louis XIV, 1672]() - [The Return from the Hunt]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()