Medieval Karl:
Combat de chats, Nicasius Bernaërtes (1620-78)
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Porcelain rabbit head. Very Donny Darko, but that's all I can tell you. Gives a good sense of combination of the museum's modern and Enlightenment-era art.
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The fable of the drunken deer, La Fable du cerf ivre, Frans Snyders (1579-1657)
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Honoré Daumier, one of several hunting cartoons. I like to think that he's having a conversation with his dog
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Various boar-head terrines. Upper left is is modern, by Wieki Somers. Others are, I think, Louis XV.
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Hunter killing a boar. Porcelain made at Meissen, 18th c.
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more boar's head caroling.
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Caput apri defero / Reddens laudes Domino
Medieval Karl:
Caput apri defero / Reddens laudes Domino
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Musée de la chasse et de la nature, Gaston Phébus on the boar
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Deer cabinet, musée de la chasse et de la nature, Lucas Cranach St Eustache above.
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Tête de coq bizar de XIXe siècle. Rooster with a weird head, 19th c. originally from the National Museum of Natural History.
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Maider Fortune, Unicorn, Licorne, 2006
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a thistle, enough to keep people off chairs.
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Falcon hood and implements
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portrait philippe le beau en fauconnier (maître de la légende de Sainte-Madeleine)
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Françoise Pétrovitch
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Françoise Pétrovitch, little red riding hood
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dominique doncre (1748 - 1820) petit chien jouant avec un soulier, 1785