Mounted hunters with spears, men on foot and dogs attack a hippopotamus and a crocodile at the water's edge, while horses rear and hunters already lie on the ground. Peter Paul Rubens painted it around 1616 as part of a cycle of four hunting scenes that Elector Maximilian I of Bavaria commissioned for the Old Palace at Schleissheim. The strikingly realistic hippopotamus is presumably based on a stuffed animal that was on show in Rome in 1601. Rubens probably drew the subject from his close study of classical art, in which dramatic hunting scenes were already popular. Napoleon's troops seized the hunting cycle, and this is the only one of the four paintings that found its way back to Munich.

It is in the Alte Pinakothek.