Falcon Attacking a Pigeon (German - Falke auf eine Taube stoßend) is a painting by Adolph Menzel, produced in 1844 as a hunting target.

The background is a representation of the sky, which towards the edges of the painting takes on a gloomy, gray-greenish tint and seems to merge downwards into a suggested forest or city backdrop, while there is more sky blue in the middle and the central point of the composition, the space between the beak ready to be grabbed and the claws of the falcon and the prey, is highlighted by a white cloud in the background.

It was apparently actually used as a target image in a shooting club, as numerous bullet points that were later repaired prove.

In Georg Dehio's History of German Art, the picture was described as a masterpiece that Menzel did not held in great appreciation.

In a 1962 anthology of the magazine Wirkendes Wort, for example, one could read that participles were a frequently used means in the fine arts to vividly reproduce the content of a picture, but that the picture would be “even more expressive in language if the participle follows its antecedent” and still take the final position behind the verbal additions, as is the case with Menzel's pigeon picture title.