Studio Jan Weenix (1641-1719), A still life with partridges and other birds together with a blue hunting belt and an opium poppy, bears indistinct signature (lower left), oil on canvas, 89x74 cm, Provenance:
-With Kunsthandel Jacques Goudstikker, Amsterdam, before 1918, inv. no. 47, as: 'Jan Weenix'.
-Auction, Christie's, London, 15 December 1978, lot 90, as: 'Jan Weenix'.
-Collection Dr. Stefan Schminck, Frankfurt-am-Main, by 1979.
-Auction, Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 2 November 2004, lot 20.
-Collection family Mengelberg, the Netherlands. Accompanied by a photocopy of a photo certificate by Dr. Walther Bernt, dated April 1979, stating the work as by Jan Weenix.
Please compare the present lot to the original painting by Jan Weenix with the same composition in: Anke A. van Wagenberg-ter Hoeven, 'Jan Weenix the paintings: master of the Dutch hunting still life', Zwolle 2018, ill. p. 326, no. 208.
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