Peeter Boel, attributed to - Game Still Life with a Polecat and Birds

Peeter Boel, attributed to

Game Still Life with a Polecat and Birds

Oil on canvas (relined). 48 x 64 cm.

The painting is recorded in the RKD archive (image no. 119274) as attributed to Peeter Boel. The original attribution to a follower of Jan Fyt can be explained by the close artistic relationship between the two painters: Boel was a pupil of Fyt and frequently employed similar motifs. He differs from his teacher, however, among others in his smoother application of paint.
The painting is displayed in a magnificent Early Baroque frame, made in Italy around 1600.

Provenance

Coll. Wi. – Lempertz, Cologne, 25.11.1937, Lot 40. – Coll. Bremen, Krefeld. – Lempertz, Cologne, 22.3.2005, Lot 650 (as Fyt, follower of). – Pivate collection, Austria.

Literature

Exh.-cat. Cologne 1929: Alte Kunst aus Kölner Privatbesitz. Renaissance und Barock, ed. by Kölnischen Kunstverein, Cologne 1929, no. 20.

Exhibitions

Alte Kunst aus Kölner Privatbesitz. Renaissance und Barock, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, 1929, no. 20.