Still Life with Dead Game

Willem van Aelst1661

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Title: Still Life with Dead Game
Creator: Willem van Aelst
Date Created: 1661
Physical Dimensions: overall: 84.7 x 67.3 cm (33 3/8 x 26 1/2 in.)
Provenance: Probably (sale, Amsterdam, 14 October 1749, no. 16).[1] Dr. C.J.K. van Aalst, Huis-te-Hoevelaken, by 1939;[2] (sale, Sotheby Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 18 May 1981, no. 1); (Richard Green, London); sold 8 June 1982 to NGA. [1] This sale was kindly brought to the attention of Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. by Tanya Paul; see her letter of 30 October 2007, in NGA curatorial files. The sale consisted of works from the collections of Johan Diedrick Pompe van Meerdervoort, Burgemeester of Dordrecht, and the painter Jan van Huysum (1682–1749), although the consignor of individual lots is not specified. The work is described as “Een doode Haan en Haas en verder bywerk, kunstig geschilderd door van Aalst, h 2v. 7 en een half d., br. 2 v. 3 d., in een zwarte Lyst met een verguld binnen Lysje. 18-10,” and Paul writes that the NGA painting is the only Van Aelst to her knowledge that depicts both a rooster and a hare. See Gerard Hoet, _Catalogus van schilderyen_, reprint, Soest, 1976: 268–269. [2] [2] J.W. von Moltke, ed. _Dutch and Flemish Old Masters in the Collection of Dr. C.J.K. van Aalst. Huis-te-Hoevelaken, Holland_, foreword by W.R. Valentiner, Verona, 1939: 50, pl. 11.
Medium: oil on canvas

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