An Italian Collecting Journey - Chapter II

David de Coninck

Ducks hunted by an eagle

Alternate Warehouse

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 EUR

Lot Details

Description

David de Coninck

Antwerp circa 1644–1701 Brussels

Ducks hunted by an eagle

oil on canvas

unframed: 121.5 x 167.5 cm.; 47⅞ x 66 in.

framed: 141.5 x 187.5 cm.; 55¾ x 73⅞ in.

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Countessa Conestabile della Staffa, Perugia;

Anonymous sale, Milan, Replica Shoes ’s, 16 November 2010, lot 38 (as Flemish School, 18th century);

Acquired subsequently by the present owner.

This composition closely relates to paintings by De Coninck in the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid,¹ the Palazzo Reale, Genoa,² and a work that sold at Dorotheum in 2016 for €62,500.³ Another variation of the composition, with a dog at right and differences among the fowl at lower centre, was previously in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, before being destroyed in 1943.⁴

¹ Inv. no. P001527; oil on canvas, 95 x 134 cm.

²Inv. no. 520; oil on canvas, 118 x 165 cm.;

³Oil on canvas, 117.5 x 171 cm.; https://rkd.nl/images/61716.

⁴ Inv. no. A 618; oil on canvas, 185.5 x 189 cm.

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