The truffle hunter
Media / technique: Antique copper plate etching on wove paper after the original.
Master etcher Ludwig Friedrich (German, 1827-1916)
Artist: after Alexandre Gabriel Decamps (1803-1860).
Size: 35x 24 cms.
Date: 1876
Description: A man dressed in huntsman's clothes, with a cloak, wide-brimmed hat and gaiters, a pouch on a strap across one shoulder and holding a stick, watches as his very large pig searches out truffles, its snout on the ground, another truffle hunter further away to left; scene in a barren landscape with a few trees and a rocky formation in the distance.
Condition: good.