A hound guarding dead game at the edge of a wood

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David de Coninck, called Rammelaar (circa 1645 - after 1701)
A hound guarding dead game at the edge of a wood
oil on canvas
96.9 x 145.7 cm

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Lot Essay

To be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Raisoné on the artist's paintings, currently prepared by F.J. Meyer.

The game depicted can be identified from left to right: a sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus), a jay (Garrulus glandarius), two song trushes (Turdus philomelos), a dead gray partridge (Perdix perdix), a hare (Lepus europaeus) and a mallard (Anas platyrhynchos; a green woodpecker (Picus viridis), a greenfinch (Carduelis chloris), a chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs) and a starling (Sturnus vulgaris) in a basket nearby.

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