A Hunting Party at Marly
Le Vieux Jean Baptiste Martin
1675–1725
- Medium
- Graphite and gray washes; framing lines in brown ink
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 51.7 x 36.7 cm (20 3/8 x 14 7/16 in.)
- Genre
- Drawings
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
France, 17th-18th century
About
This drawing represents a royal hunt like those known to have taken place at King Louis XIV’s hunting lodge at Marly, located just outside of Paris. Dwarfed by enormous trees, men on foot and horseback, accompanied by musicians carrying French horns, prepare themselves for a hunt while a pack of dogs run in excitement of chasing their prey.