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Jan FYT attribué à (Anvers 1609-1661)

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Bird hunting trophy in front of a trebuchet on a landscape background Oil on canvas. 41x 52 cm (Rentoilage). Provenance: - Versailles, Hôtel Rameau, Maître Blache, 11 June 1980, n° 51 (reproduced as Jan Fyt). Documents: 1 - Handwritten certificate dated November 1921 from Professor Cornelis Hofstede de Groot (1863 - 1930) considering it to be an authentic work by Jan Fyt (Joannes Fÿt); 2 - Certificate of authenticity dated 26 March 1980 from G. Heim - Gairac, expert at the French Customs . Analogy: - London, National Gallery, Jan Fyt, Game bird with a trebuchet (Canvas; 39 x 57 cm) signed lower right (Cf. Edith Greindl, Flemish Still Life Painters in the 17th Century; Jan Fyt, catalogue no. 71, p.349 - Paris 1983).