Elias Vonck 1605-1652

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Description

Elias Vonck
Still life of dead game upon a table, including a swan, a bittern, boar, peacock and kingfisher, various game birds and a hare together with three hounds
indistinctly signed centre right: Vonck(?) over later signature: J Weenix f.
oil on canvas, in a carved and giltwood frame

Provenance

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 5 April 1995, lot 131 (as Studio of Jan Weenix).

Catalogue Note

The signature was revealed during cleaning in 1995 after its purchase in these Rooms on 5 April (see Provenance), which confirms the attribution to Vonck made prior to cleaning by Mr. Fred G. Meijer. His largest known work, the present painting may be compared with the four works published in S.A. Sullivan, The Dutch Gamepiece, Woodbridge 1984, figs. 42, 111-113.