The 50 plates / Plate 27 of 50
Plate 27 of 50
Setting Out for the Falcon Hunt
Aufbruch zur Falkenjagd
Philips Wouwerman
Not yet located
The drawing
A mounted hunting party prepares to depart along a wooded path. A rider at left gestures toward his companions, while a richly dressed horseman and a woman carrying a falcon occupy the center and right. Hunting dogs move among the horses, with additional riders following behind.
Becker, 1922
As Felix Becker published it in 1922.
- Attribution
- Philips Wouwerman
- Title as printed
- Aufbruch zur Falkenjagd
- Title in English
- Setting Out for the Falcon Hunt
- Medium and size
- Gray-blue brush drawing, 21 × 34.5 cm
- Inscription
- Unsigned
- Collection in 1922
- Ducal collection, Dessau
Today
Modern cataloguing and the drawing’s whereabouts, as far as they are known.
- Status
- Not yet located
- Where is it now?
- Not yet located. No post-Becker museum or auction record has been securely identified with this drawing.
- Attribution today
- Philips Wouwerman, as attributed by Becker. No independent modern attribution to this exact drawing has been verified.
The sheet in this copy
Sources
- Felix Becker, Handzeichnungen alter Meister in Privatsammlungen (Leipzig, 1922), plate 27.
- No later museum or auction record has been securely identified with this drawing so far.