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Property from the Collection of Rolf & Margit Weinberg

Elias Vonck

A still life of a swan suspended from a hook, a hare, a grey partridge, a pheasant on a barrel, and a rabbit and song birds on a stone ledge

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Auction Closed

July 3, 03:27 PM GMT

Estimate

7,000 - 10,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Rolf & Margit Weinberg


Elias Vonck

Amsterdam 1605–1652

A still life of a swan suspended from a hook, a hare, a grey partridge, a pheasant on a barrel, and a rabbit and song birds on a stone ledge


signed on the barrel, centre left: E. Vonck. fe.

oil on canvas

unframed: 113.3 x 157.2 cm.; 44⅝ x 61⅞ in.

framed: 136.5 x 179.6 cm.; 53¾ x 70¾ in.

Charles George Lyttelton, 8th Viscount Cobham (1842–1922), Hagley Hall, Worcestershire;

Anonymous sale, London, Christie’s, 29 October 2008, lot 59, for £18,750;

Anonymous sale, Île-de-France, Corbeil Esonnes Enchères, 22 June 2013, lot 24, for €12,093;

Where acquired by the present owners.

Advertisement in Gazette Drouot, 7 December 2012, p. 178, reproduced in colour.

Birmingham, Birmingham Art Gallery, no. 95, lent by 8th Viscount Cobham (according to an old label on the reverse; the year of exhibition unspecified).