CHRISTIAN VAN COUWENBERGH | Hunters with their dog, game and hunting equipment

This painting may be one of two entries in W.C. Maier-Preusker's 1991 catalogue of Couwenbergh's works, for which neither dimensions nor images were known. The painting described merely as a 'Hunting Piece' was formerly in the Merian collection, Frankfurt; that described as a 'Bird hunt' was part of the estate of Herman Pietersz. van Ruyven, Delft in 1645, valued at 90 Dutch Florins.(1)

1 W.C. Maier-Preusker, 'Christian van Couwenbergh (1604-1667) Œuvre und Wandlungen, Eines Hollandischen Caravaggisten', in Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch, vol. LII, Cologne 1991, p. 226, cat. no. C27 or C29.