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Hunters
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Hunters

Artist/Maker, United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959
Date1904
MediumOil on Canvas
DimensionsUnknown
Credit LineLocation Unknown
Object numberCC.0013
ClassificationsPainting
Signed
lower right, C. Rungius
Subject
Region
    Categorywildlife
    Description"The Hunters. A dry river bed in full sunlight, in the centre a male lion, trotting behind partly covered by the figure of the lion, a lioness squatting down behind and looking over the bank. Antelopes on the right side in the distance," from copyright long form, December 28, 1905, Class I. IXXc. No. 16568 ( Class I: Works of Art).
    Two lions total.
    Curatorial Remarks
    Copyright title/description: Hunters Dry river bed in full sunlight; in the centre a male lion trotting behind partly covered by the figure of the lion, a lioness squatting down behind and looking over the bank.
    Copyright proprietor: Rungius (Carl), Brooklyn, N.Y.
    Class I, XXc, no. 16568, Dec. 28, 1905. 
    "The Hunters. A dry river bed in full sunlight, in the centre a male lion, trotting behind partly covered by the figure of the lion, a lioness squatting down behind and looking over the bank. Antelopes on the right side in the distance. (Photograph on file.)" From copyright long form, December 28, 1905, Class I. IXXc. No. 16568 ( Class I: Works of Art).

    Not illustrated in The Collector and Art Critic 4, no. 5 (March 1906) but described on page 138: "In a different key, but with excellent local color, is the lion, with his mate, stalking the herd of antelope in the distance beyond the rocky cliffs."
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