It was painted by Peter Paul Rubens around 1611-1612. it was Flemish styled and was an oil on panel painting and it's dimensions are 23 1/4 x 35 1/2 in.
the painting tells the story of Meleager, who was sent to kill the boar which was released by the goddess diana because Meleagers father King Oeneus failed to honor her which is from Ovid's Metamorphosis Rubens painted this after a stay in Italy, where he got the idea to paint this. he saw many statues and sculptures depicting this story and decided to make one of his own. What captivated me about this painting was that you could just feel the intense emotion coming from the men who were hunting the boar, you can just sense it was an intense battle and great victory for the men. Rubens had actually used Da Vinci and Raphaels paintings to help him paint the men on horseback but everything else was of his own mind. This painting was recently "found" and auctioned off in 2006, the reason it was "found" is because it was mistakenly thought that the painting was by a follower of Rubens and not Rubens himself. Scholars believe that Ruben kept the painting after he finished it so he could inspire himself and all the hunting paintings he was going to paint in the future, because this was the one that started them all.
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