Two Views of a Dead Boar with a Mastiff and two other Dogs

Jakob Philipp Hackert (Prenzlau 1737 – San Piero di Careggi 1807). Oil painting on canvas, Two Views of a Dead Boar with a Mastiff and two other Dogs, by Jakob Philipp Hackert Prenzlau 1737 – San Piero di Careggi 1807), signed and dated under inscription on rock at bottom left: Questo cignale di pesto ….. / lungo…5 ½ a…op 3 ? dipinto dalle / Due parti le singolari sue macchie / fu ucciso da S.M. il Re 7 Novbre 1795 nei / Bosco di Turcino alla Mortina / della Colonna / Il gran cane det. Bassa alto pal. 3 / on…..5 ¼ nato senza Coda si / trova presso il Bascia di Belgrade / allorche fu presa la Fortezza dalle / Armi Austriache e nell 1790 / Leopoldo II lo dono a S.Maesta. / Filippo Hackert dipinse 1795. The dead boar is painted twice, to show both its flanks with their black spots. The mastiff stands nearby, with two other dogs, in a rocky wooded landscape at the edge of a forest of oaks; a castle in a valley, and mountains beyond. Attingham Park, Shropshire (Accredited Museum)