Meleager and his dog

This bronze statuette, by an unknown sculptor, was probably made in France in the first half of the seventeenth century.

It represents Meleager, a Greek mythological figure who was the son of a king of Calydon, a city in Aetolia. His father offended the goddess Diana, who then sent out a wild boar to threaten the countryside. Meleager along with a group of colleagues tried to hunt the boar. This is referred to as the Calydonian Boar Hunt.