Masterfully genre scene with hunters, returning home with trophies from the hunting, it was executed in Munich in 1873 by German painter Hans Brunner (1813 - Munich - 1888). This work was inscribed under No.9 in the article about the artist in the famous monograph ”List of paintings of 19th century” by Friedrich Boetticher, V.1, page 148. 

Brunner initially attended a polytechnic. He then studied with Peter von Cornelius at the Munich Royal Academy. From 1840 he lived in Salzburg, then temporarily in Innsbruck and Merano, between 1866 and 1869 in Stuttgart and then in Munich.

Brunner was a member of the Munich Art Association from 1851.
Hans Brunner was a genre and portrait painter who painted predominantly scenes from Upper Bavaria (e.g. hunters, dairymaids, mountain farmers), as well as folk depictions from the Thirty Years' War and portraits of Tyrolean nobles. His works include:

Pictures from the Thirty Years' War (1835)
Inns with rice runners and soldiers (1836)
Monks in the monastery garden (1847)
Wild women from Untersberg (1851)

Literature: Thieme/Becker "Allgemeines Kuenstlerlexikon". Leipzig, 1999; Friedrich von Boetticher , List of painters of 19h century, Dresden, 1898 (both in German).

Inscription: signed and dated München 1873 lower right.

Technique: oil on canvas,  original period frame.

Measurements: unframed h 27 1/8" x w 31 1/8" (69 x 79,5 cm); framed h 39” x w 43” (99 x 119 cm).

Condition: in very good condition.