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Hunting Party with Badger, Loire Valley, France

c. 1850

France

Medium
daguerreotype, quarter plate
Measurements
Overall: 8 x 10.5 cm (3 1/8 x 4 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 2021.52
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In the mid-1800s in France, badger hunting was a working-class sport, popular among farm workers and villagers.

Description

At that time in France, badger hunting was a working-class sport, popular among farm workers and villagers. The meat was commonly used in rural cuisine, plus badgers were considered pests. This daguerreotype shows successful hunters, dead prey at their feet, being rewarded with wine. One man, exhausted by his efforts, has dozed off. The image was definitely posed, but the dead badger suggests an element of truth behind it. Hunt scenes were popular in various art forms in the mid-1800s.
A horizontal daguerreotype within an oval gold mat depicts four people with light skin tones around a table. On the left, a bearded man rests his head on his hand with eyes closed. Centrally, a woman in a blue bonnet pours from a bottle into a man's glass on our right. A capped youth stands behind. In the foreground, a dead badger lies near several rifles against a plain background.

Hunting Party with Badger, Loire Valley, France

c. 1850

France

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