Peter Casteels III (1684-1749)
Peter Casteels III (1684-1749)

A peacock, a cockerel, a hen with her chicks, a kestrel with its prey and other birds, by a bas-relief sculpture, a landscape beyond

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Peter Casteels III (1684-1749)
A peacock, a cockerel, a hen with her chicks, a kestrel with its prey and other birds, by a bas-relief sculpture, a landscape beyond
signed and dated 'PCasteels F/1729.'
oil on canvas
43¼ x 63in. (110 x 160cm.)

Lot Essay

A second signed version of this composition of slightly larger dimensions, and with differences to the architecture on the right, was executed by Pieter Casteels in 1732 and sold at Christie's, London, 26 November 1965, lot 143.

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