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This painting is one of a pair of hunting scenes: The Boar Hunt; The Return from the Hunt
A group of hunters, some on horseback and others on foot, attack a wild boar. The hunters' dogs join in the attack, whilst two horsewomen look on approvingly. In the background a man blows a bugle.
The two paintings are not allegories of Europe and Asia respectively, as was once thought, but are a pair of gallant hunting scenes. In the painting Parrocel may well have borrowed figures from engravings of hunting scenes by Antonio Tempesta and after Rubens.
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