A Deerhound Art Print - Sir Edwin Henry Landseer animal second or third quarter 17th

second or third quarter 17th century)

Medium: Oil on wood

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painted at the close of the Civil War

A Deerhound Art Print - Sir Edwin Henry Landseer animal second or third quarter 17thAbout the Art: Deerhounds were bred to hunt deer by running them down, a method known as coursing or deer stalking. In this study, Landseer sympathetically evoked his subjects vivacity and poise. The dog appears in a similar pose, nuzzling under the hand of its master, the Duke of Gordon, in Landseers Scene in the Scottish Highlands (ca. 182528; private collection). The painting was one of the artists first aristocratic hunting portraits, and it