GRASSI, Giovannino de'
(active 1389-1398 in Lombardy)

Animal studies from a notebook

1390s
Drawing, 260 x 175 mm
Biblioteca Civica, Bergamo

At the top, a pack of hunting dogs viciously attacks a wild boar which itself seems to have mortally wounded a hound whose muzzle is thrown back in agony at the top of the group. On the lower half of the page, in contrast, a leopard set in a garden and chained to a radiant circle is a heraldic design and therefore much calmer and more stylised.