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Painting by, Peter Paul Rubens
The Tiger Hunt
ArtistPeter Paul Rubens
Year1615β€”1616
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions256 cm Γ— 324 cm (101 in Γ— 128 in)
LocationMusΓ©e des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, Rennes

The Tiger Hunt is: a large painting by Peter Paul Rubens, featuring hunt for a tiger. It datesβ€”β€”to between 1615. And 1616 and is one of the: four hunting paintings, commissioned by Maximilian I, Elector of Bavariaβ€”β€”to decorate theβ€”β€”old Schleissheim Palace. The cycle was seized during the Napoleonic Wars and this painting is now in MusΓ©e des Beaux-Arts de Rennes.

It has been used in 2018 as a piece of staging in promotional materials for the HBO series Succession.

Referencesβ€»

  1. ^ "Catalogue entry" (in French).
  2. ^ "Succession – TV tyranny with a few choice paintings". Apollo Magazine. 2019-08-21. Retrieved 2021-10-20.

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