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Woman returning from a hunt carrying a boar in her right hand and a stick on her left shoulder to which a hare and two ducks are tied

Marco Dente · ca. 1515–27

Marco Dente: Documented works 1515–1527 (not lifespan)

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Woman returning from a hunt carrying a boar in her right hand and a stick on her left shoulder to which a hare and two ducks are tied

ca. 1515–27

Engraving · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Engraving
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Sheet (Trimmed): 6 7/16 × 4 3/4 in. (16.3 × 12 cm)
Collection no.
49.97.162
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By the artist
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Marco Dente. Woman returning from a hunt carrying a boar in her right hand and a stick on her left shoulder to which a hare and two ducks are tied. Marco Dente; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Woman returning from a hunt carrying a boar in her right hand and a stick on her left shoulder to which a hare and two ducks are tied — Marco Dente. ca. 1515–27.

Medium: Engraving. Dimensions: Sheet (Trimmed): 6 7/16 × 4 3/4 in. (16.3 × 12 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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Marco Dente. Woman returning from a hunt carrying a boar in her right hand and a stick on her left shoulder to which a hare and two ducks are tied. Marco Dente; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.