The Quarry (La Curée)
by COURBET, Gustave, Oil on canvas, 210 x 184 cm
This painting was the first in a long series of animal paintings with hunters, stags, red and roe deer, horses, dogs, foxes and snow-scenes. During his frequent stays in Franche-Comt�, Courbet liked to go hunting and made of this activity a subject from which he drew wholly unprecedented results.