A hare, blue and yellow tits, a jay, a mallard duck, snipes and a heron on a stone ledge, with a spaniel and a rifle on a carpet, before a draped curtain, in a park landscape

We are grateful to Fred Meijer, of the RKD, The Hague, for identifying this painting as an early work of c. 1675-80 by the artist, executed when he was still strongly influenced by the paintings of his father, Jacques de Claeuw (Dordrecht 1623-after 1694).