Attributed to Peeter Boel Antwerp 1622 - 1674 Paris

Anonymous sale, Stockholm, Bukowski, 4-7 November 1986, lot 447 (as Jan Weenix);
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 13 March 1987, lot 108 (as Dirck Valkenburg);
Offered, New York, Sotheby's, 12 January 1989, lot 197 (as David de Coninck);
Offered, London, Philips, 10 April 1990, lot 39, as David de Coninck;
Anonymous sale, Kopenhagen, Rasmussen, 23 April 1991, lot 41, (as David de Coninck).

"The following condition report has been provided by Henry Gentle, an independent restorer who is not an employee of Sotheby's. The original canvas is lined. The paint layer is raised but stable. Under U-V light can be seen the presence of significant retouchings in the background and foreground to augment a thin and abraded paint layer, the canvas weave is visible through it in places. The arches in the background have been augmented and a strip along the bottom of the painting, beneath the guinea pigs, has been retouched. A fine filigree of pale shrinkage cracking is visible throughout the paint layer."
"This lot is offered for sale subject to Sotheby's Conditions of Business, which are available on request and printed in Sotheby's sale catalogues. The independent reports contained in this document are provided for prospective bidders' information only and without warranty by Sotheby's or the Seller."

Looking at the rabbits in the present work, Fred G. Meijer, in 1986, attributed this work to Jan Pauwel Gillemans the Younger (1651-1702). On the basis of photographs, he now believes an attribution to Peeter Boel is more convincing. The landscape may have been filled in at a later stage by another hand.