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A Red Deer Buck and a Doe
George Stubbs·1792
Historical Context
A Red Deer Buck and a Doe from 1792 by George Stubbs is a late wildlife painting depicting wild deer. Stubbs's deer paintings demonstrate his understanding of cervine anatomy, applied with the same rigor as his equine studies. Stubbs's oil technique was grounded in exhaustive anatomical study—he spent eighteen months dissecting horses at a Lincolnshire farmhouse before painting the plates for his Anatomy of the Horse (1766)—producing an exactitude of musculature and bone structure unmatched...
Technical Analysis
The deer pair is rendered with anatomical precision, the buck's antlers and both animals' builds depicted with careful observation.
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