Monday, July 22, 2013

Goya Paints a Setter

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Hunting with Bait is a painting by Spanish painter Francisco Goya from 1775 and is, I believe, one of the first pictures showing the use of a setter to help a trapper set nets. 

The caged owl is a lure, as is the attractant song bird. This particular painting is in the Prado.

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