Hog hunting

Oil on canvas depicting a boar hunting scene. Stylistically, the painting is attributable to the Neapolitan painter Baldassarre De Caro. (1689-1750). It predominantly paints still lifes, hunting game and similar subjects with wild boar hunting. The quality and theme place the work in the 1630s when De Caro workedfor the aristocracy and the Bourbon court. The painting bears an old stamp of the Royal Art Gallery of Turin on the back. The stamp refers to the earliest period in the history of the public collection that the Savoy family donated to the State in 1850 under the name of Regia Pinacoteca Nazionale (Royal National Picture Gallery) by means of a Royal Decree, which became law in 1860.