The head of the wolf centre left is used in the Bear Hunt in the Speck von Sternberg collection, Lutzschena. The head of the stag, top right, was used for the Tigers bringing down a Stag sold in these Rooms, 19 April 1985, lot 59, and is similar to that in the Leopards attacking a Stag, signed and dated 1663, in the Törok Sale, American Art Association, New York, 3-8 November 1928, lot 721; an undated variant with identical animals but a different background was sold by Muller, Amsterdam, 4-5 December 1912, lot 259, and is now in a German private collection. The other stag head at upper right was used in A Lioness threatening a Tiger which has brought down a Stag by a Sarcophagus formerly in the Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, and now at Augsburg (B. Bushart, Deutsche Barockgalerie, Katalog der Gemälde, Augsburg, 1984, pp.211-12 and pl.38) and in A Lion and a Tiger fighting over a dead Stag by a Tomb sold at the Dorotheum, Vienna, 7-8 November 1991, lot 99. The billy goat head features 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 head of a bear centre left was probably used in the Bear Hunt in the Louvre (first recorded in Berlin in 1806, this might be the Caccia d'Orso al naturale con bellissimi cani by 'Ruters' or 'Ruter' owned by Field Marshal von der Schulenburg, see A. Binion, La Galleria scomparsa del maresciallo von der Schulenburg, Milan, 1990, pp.247 and 285). The head of the dead bear was used for the Bear Hunt sold at Sotheby's, Monaco, 15 June 1990, lot 261. The bantam cock is very similar to one in the Peasant and Farm Animals by a Well in the Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna (F. G. Meijer, Enige schilderijen met vee van C. B. A. Ruthart, Oud Holland, 104, 1990, nos.3-4, p.333, fig.3), while the group of birds to its right, consisting of a shoveler, a coot, a moorhen and a ruddy shelduck, recurs in lot in the present sale. The golden eagle is used in the Leopards with a fallen Stag in the Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck (T. Frimmel, Studien und Skizzen zur Gemäldekunde, III, 1918, pl.XXXIV)