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Antoine Sallaert

A dog and an eagle fighting over their prey

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March 24, 02:14 PM GMT

Estimate

600 - 800 GBP

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Attributed to Antoine Sallaert

Brussels circa 1590 - 1650

A dog and an eagle fighting over their prey

Point of the brush and brown wash and gouache within pen and brown ink framing lines, on light brown paper; bears attribution and numbering in black chalk, verso: P.P. Rubens / 11 (?) and bears attributions in pen and brown ink and black chalk on the mount, lower left: J. Kiip and also on the mount: Weenix

320 by 213 mm

Animated and rapidly drawn, this brush drawing depicting a dog and an eagle fighting over their prey is stylistically similar to the work of the Flemish painter, Antoine Sallaert, especially to the sketches he produced using oil.

A student of Rubens, Sallaert became a master in the Brussels painters' guild in 1613, and thereafter received numerous commissions, mainly religious, the most notable being his important cycle of twelve paintings for the Onze Lieve Vrouwekerk at Alsemberg (1647-49). He was also very active as a designer of tapestries and as an engraver, and made a few portraits.