A Chained Hound Eating from a Bowl

Details

Jan Fyt* (1609-1661)
A Chained Hound Eating from a Bowl
oil on canvas
22¼ x 25½in. (56.5 x 65cm.)

Provenance

with Noel Desenfans, as Velázquez.
1st Marquis of Stafford, by descent to his second son, Lord Francis Leveson Gower, later 1st Earl of Ellesmere, Bridgewater House, and thence by descent to the 5th Earl of Ellesmere; his sale, Christie's, London, Oct. 18, 1946, lot 87 (18gns. to Rothman).

Literature

W.Y. Ottley, Stafford Gallery Catalogue, 1818, IV, no. 112, class III. Catalogue of the Bridgewater Collection of Pictures belonging to the Earl of Ellesmere at Bridgewater House, Cleveland Square, St. James London, 1853, p. 30, no. 178.
Catalogue of the Bridgewater and Ellesmere Collections of Pictures at Bridgewater House, Cleveland Square, St. James, London, 1897, p. 33, no. 178.

Lot Essay

This is a study for the larger painting by Fyt of a Mastif Drinking (oil on canvas, 37 1/4 x 49 5/8in.) in the John G. Johnson Collection, Philadelphia, Inv. no. 702. In the final version the doorway at the right was converted to a balustrade and the dog drinks rather than eats. The painting was engraved in 1818 when at Stafford House.