The stag in the centre was used for the Staghunts at Budapest and Stockholm (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Illustrated Catalogue - European Paintings, Stockholm, 1990, p.321, illustrated). The wild boar, the three wolves and the fox feature in the Boar Hunt, one of a pair of pictures first recorded in the collection of Richard Hill, Thornton Hall, Yorkshire, and sold from the Northwick Park Collection in these Rooms, 25 February 1966, lot 87; subsequently sold by Lady Mary Dunn at Sotheby's on 21 March 1973, lot 25, they were last recorded with Richard Feigen in New York in 1977. The composition is repeated but on a smaller scale and with a different background in a picture at Budapest, no.758.

The fox and the wolf seen frontally were also used for S. Pietro Celestino feeding the Wild Animals in the Church of S. Maria di Collemaggio at L'Aquila (Fr. Q. Salomone, Basilica di S. Maria di Collemaggio, L'Aquila, 1988, unpaginated, illustrated in colour), a modello for which is in the museum there (M. Moretti, Museo Nazionale d'Abruzzo, L'Aquila, 1968, p.178, illustrated). The head and neck of the fox were also used for S. Pietro Celestino in Ecstasy with an Angel scattering Roses over him in the same church (also illustrated in colour in Salomone, op. cit.). The head of the mountain sheep in profile was used in the signed Stories of Tobias in the Hermitage (N. Nikulin and B. Asvarishch, German and Austrian Painting in the Hermitage, Leningrad, Leningrad, 1986, p.33, pl.80 and pl.81, colour detail). The beaver centre left features in Deer by a Rockpool formerly on the German art market. The owl at top right is similar to that in the Birds and Deer at a rocky Pool in a private collection which also includes the goldeneye shown in the present picture and in lot and the pelican shown in lots and