"Portrait Of A Bloodhound - Vènerie Hunting Dog "
P. GENDRONThe bloodhound
Oil on canvas
H. 80 cm; L. 100 cm
Circa 1900
Provenance: Private collection, Brittany
This composition, incorporating all the attributes of venery (hunting with hounds), was most certainly originally made as a trumeau or over a door. It is easy to imagine this beautiful format enthroned above a fireplace or accompanied by other “allegories” of hunting. The bloodhound is here framed by oak branches, surrounded by a hunting trunk below which a whip and a dagger intersect.
The author of this painting, signed “P. Gendron” has not been identified…
The cracks visible in the photographs are not as perceptible to the naked eye. Without frame.
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