The Property of a Gentleman
CORNELIS BILTIUS | A pair of trompe l'œil game larder still lifes: with a hare, partridge, snipe, turkey, pike, eel and fish, with a parrot; and with pigeons, a hare, calf's head, asparagus, lobster and trout, with a hawk and a plover
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December 5, 12:50 PM GMT
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
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The Property of a Gentleman
CORNELIS BILTIUS
The Hague 1653 - after 1685
A pair of trompe l'œil game larder still lifes: with a hare, partridge, snipe, turkey, pike, eel and fish, with a parrot; and with pigeons, a hare, calf's head, asparagus, lobster and trout, with a hawk and a plover
the former signed lower left: C. Bilcius fecit
the latter signed lower right: Cornelis Bilcius
a pair, both oil on canvas
the former: 124.5 x 221.3 cm.; 49 x 87⅛ in.
the latter: 126 x 216 cm.; 49⅝ x 85 in.
(2)
The Margraves of Baden, Kloster Salem, Lake Constance (inv. nos 5 and 6);
Thence by descent until sold ('Die Sammlung der Markgrafen und Grossherzöge von Baden'), Baden-Baden, Sotheby's, 13 October 1995, lot 2306;
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 6 July 2006, lot 201, for £110,000, where acquired.