Pieter van Laer (1599-1642) A Hunter with His Hounds A male figure on the left, holding a staff, while stroking one of his seven dogs; two dogs sleeping at lower left, and a cat resting on the windowsill at upper right. The first, before the numbering, is from the series of eight etchings ‘Various Animals’ (Diverse dieren) made by Pieter van Laer, 1636.