November from the Twelve Months Panels
Artist
Karl Theodore Francis Bitter
(Austrian/American, 1867-1915)
Date1892-93
MediumMarble
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineBequest of John Ringling, 1936
Object numberSN11657.11
Scenes of the hunt, especially for hogs or boar, were common in medieval representations of November/December. Here, a child with an instrument similar to the <i>cornu</i>, the horn of the ancient Roman army (here used as a hunting horn), sits bestride a felled boar while another boy wearing a hunting hat carries off a fowl. Between them, a child grabs at the collar of a hunting dog. The inclusion of historical costumes – like the sleeping boy in Renaissance garb and the trumpeter’s medieval headgear – adds to the whimsy of the scene.
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- Museum of Art, Gallery 21
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