Hunt Scenes in Medieval and Renaissance Works of Art

Hunting

Pictish cross slab, 9th-10th century
So-called hunting horn of Count Albrecht III of Habsburg, c. 1200
Hunting a stag, Reiner Musterbuch (ÖNB 507, fol. 2r), c. 1200-1220
A man hunts an antelope in the Devine Bestiary (BNF Fr. 14969, fol. 5), 13th century
Hunting a bird, a marginal illustration in a bible (Bibl. Mazarine, MS 0026, fol. 300), c. 1250-1274; I find this one interesting for the odd arrowhead the archer is using
A hunter blowing his horn while his dogs attack a beaver (Getty Ludwig XV 3, fol. 83), c. 1270
A bird-hunter in a relief of the Labors of the Months at the Basilica di San Marco in Venice, c. 1275
Dagobert hunting deer on fols. 50 and 51v of the Life of St. Denis (BNF NAF 1098), 13th century
Manesse Codex (UBH Cod. Pal. germ. 848): König Konrad der Junge (fol. 7r), Markgraf Heinrich von Meißen (fol. 14v), Von Suonegge (fol. 202v), Herr Heinrich Hetzbold von Weißensee (fol. 228r), Herr Geltar (fol. 320v), Kunz von Rosenheim (fol. 394r), Der Kol von Nüssen (fol. 396r)
Arthur and Guinevere hunt a boar, Lancelot du Lac (BNF Fr. 122, fol. 65v), 1344
Bas-de-page (detail) in a Passionnaire l'usage de l'abbaye de Saint-Trond, 14th century
Ivory relief carving: three hunters, made in France in the first half of the 14th century
The Taymouth Hours (British Library, Yates Thompson 13, c. 1325-1335) has three sequences of hunting images: a rabbit hunt in fols. 68-72, a bird hunt in fols. 73-75v, a stag hunt in fols. 76v-83v
The Savernake Horn, c. 1325-1350
The Romance of Alexander (Bodl. 264), 1338-1344: Several hunting illustrations, including fol. 122v
Scenes of Country Life fresco in the Chambre du Cerf of the Papal Palace at Avignon, 1343
Ivory panel with hunting scenes, Paris, c. 1350
A pewter badge depicting a hunter (armed with a bow and arrow, and carrying a hunting horn), late 14th century
Giving the entrails of a stag to the dogs from The Book of King Modus and Queen Ratio (BNF Fr. 12399, fol. 16), 1379
The legend of St. Margaret, 1380s
A pack of hunting dogs set on a wild boar in a notebook sketch by Giovannino de' Grassi, 1390s
Hunting (fol. 64), and hunting for hare (fol. 64v), partridge (fol. 67v), pheasant (fol. 68), turtledove (fol. 70), crane (fol. 70v), thrush (fol. 72), and pheasant (fol. 72v), Tacuinum Sanitatis (BNF Nouvelle acquisition latine 1673), c. 1390-1400
Bird-hunting (Sagittarius) in a breviary (ÖNB 1842, fol. 6r), c. 1395-1405
Partridge (fol. 65v), quail (fol. 66), turtledoves (fol. 67), cranes (fol. 68v), gazelle (fol. 69v), hare (fol. 70), and hunting (fol. 93), Tacuinum Sanitatis (BNF Latin 9333), 15th century
Zenobia hunting, De mulieribus claris (BNF Fr. 598, fol. 148), beginning of the 15th century
Sadoc hunting, Tristan de Léonois, BNF Fr. 97, fol. 1, first quarter of the 15th century
Gaston Phoebus' Book of the Hunt (BNF Fr. 616), beginning of the 15th century (more here). Also use Mandragore for BNF Fr. 1291 (c. 1445-1450) and BNF Fr. 617 (beginning of the 16th century), or use Corsair to find M.1044 (c. 1410).
August and December in Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, c. 1412-1416
The Death of St. Giles by Master Thomas de Coloswar, 1427
Two men use dogs and spears to hunt a boar in December in the Dunois Hours (British Library Yates Thompson 3, fol. 12r), c. 1439-1450
Hunting a stag in the forest in the Book of Hours of Marguerite d'Orléans (BNF Lat. 1156B, fol. 163), c. 1430
The Devonshire Hunting Tapestries (c. 1420-1450): Falconry, Swan and Otter Hunt, Boar and Bear Hunt, Deer Hunt
Saladin and Torello di Stra in the Decameron (BNF Fr. 239, fol. 289v), second quarter of the 15th century
A hunter and dogs pursuing wild goats (Getty 27, fol. 82), c. 1430-1440
Hunting a boar (note armored? skirt), The Hours of Catherine of Cleves (PML M.917, fol. 271), c. 1440
Prince Tassilo Rides to Hunting, 1444
Diana and her maidens hunt a stag, The Epistle of Othea (KB 74 G 27, fol. 59r), 1450-1475
Hunting, Livre des prouffitz champestres et ruraulx (BNF Arsenal 5064, fol. 265), third quarter of the 15th century
Base-de-page detail, fol. 3 from a Benedictine breviary, c. 1450-1460
Base-de-page detail, fol. 6 from a Benedictine breviary c. 1450-1460
A rabbit-hunt in the background of Bernardino della Ciarda Thrown Off His Horse (one of the Three Incidents from the Battle of San Romano) by Paolo Uccello, 1450s
Death of William Rufus, Chronique de Normandie (British Library Yates Thompson 33, fol. 186), second half of the 15th century
Detail from the Procession of the Young King fresco at the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi by Benozzo Gozzoli, 1459-1460
Esau gives up his birthright (fol. 45v) and St. Eustace hunting (fol. 371v), Speculum historiale (BNF Fr. 50, fol. 45v), 1463
Departing for the hunt, the Wolfegg Housebook, c. 1465-1500
Sadoc hunting, Tristan de Lonois (BNF Fr. 102, fol. 1), c. 1470
Hunting and fishing, Livre des Prouffis Champestres et Ruraux (PML M.232, fol. 265r), c. 1470
Jupiter and his Children, Pond House, a large game hunt, and a small game hunt from The Housebook, c. 1475-1485
Allegory of March: The Triumph of Minerva, a fresco at the Palazzo Scifanoia by Francesco del Cossa, 1476-1484
The hunt, c. 1485-1490
A duck hunt on the back of a comb, c. 1490-1500
August, November (background), and December, The Grimani Breviary, c. 1490-1510
Statuette of a falconer, c. 1495
St. Gilles and the Hind, c. 1500
May (fol. 6v) and June (fol. 8) in a book of hours (British Library, King's 9), c. 1500
Rustic Sports tapestry, c. 1500-1515
Fowler with ducks, the Hours of Laudomia de' Medici (British Library Yates Thompson 30, fol. 11), 1502
Phaedra departs for the hunt, Ovid's Heroides (BNF Fr. 874, fol. 31v-32), beginning of the 16th century
Ivory horn carved with hunt scene, 16th century
The falconer and his birds in the summer scenes of the Augsburger Monatsbilder, 1520s
Fols. 2r, 4v, 12v, and 80r in the Hennessy Book of Hours, c. 1530-1540
Hunting near Hartenfels Castle by Lucas Cranach, 1540
Hunt in Honor of Charles V at the Castle of Torgau by Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1544; detail of the stag hunt of Prince Johann Friedrich
Falconers, duck hunters, and deer hunters from Melancolia in the Garden of Life by Matthias Gerung, 1558
Illustrations from La Venerie by Jaques du Fouilloux, 1561
Hunters in the Snow by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1565
The Hunter, Das Ständebuch, 1568
Powder-horn with an engraved hunt scene, c. 1591-1600
Hunting by Annibale Carracci, before 1595
Powder flask with a stag hunt inlaid in ivory, made in Germany in 1603
Countryside scene with hunters by Gillis van Coninxloo
Hunting horn made by Crétien, c. 1650