Two hunters direct the reckoning up of their quarry of waterfowl; the gamekeeper lists them in a notebook; and a boy separates out the birds. Line engraving by M. Pitteri after P. Longhi.

Also identified as : Il conteggio della cacciagione

Also identified as : Counting the bag

1760-1769

1 print : line engraving, with etching ; image 58.8 x 48.3 cm

Or lieto il cacciator di sua fatica / Novera, e parte in un la preda amica. / Dividit [sic], et numerat praedam venator amicam / Gaudia nunc capiens parta labore suo. Petrus Longhi pinxit Ven.is ; Marcus Pitteri sculpsit Ven.is.

The seventh episode in the series called La caccia in valle (Hunting n the valley)

Terisio Pignatti, Pietro Longhi: paintings and drawings, London: Phaidon, 1969, p. 103, fig. 58

G. Marini, 'Pietro Longhi and his engravers', Print quarterly, 1994, vol. 11, pp. 401-410

Wellcome Collection 3044025i

After: one of seven paintings in the same series that were painted by Pietro Longhi for the Barbarigo family and which in 1934 were deposited in the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice; engraved in the same direction as the painting