A hunting still life with a hare hanging from a rope by a stone wall, with a partridge and a snipe, other birds in a basket nearby, a cat looking on

We are grateful to Mr. Fred Meijer of the RKD for suggesting the tentative attribution on the basis of comparison with the signed picture sold, Christie's, Amsterdam, 2 September 1998, lot 45. It seems unlikely that the artist is identical with the one registered in U. Thieme & Becker Allgemeines Lexicon den Bildenden Künstler, XVI, p. 529, who is said to have been a pupil of Hendrik van Balen. The present artist would appear likely to have worked in Antwerp, under the influence of Jan Fyt. C. Hofstede de Groot listed a hunting still life by an artist Nicolaas van Herp in the sale in Paris, 19 November 1772, lot 26.