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In Focus

Pieter van Noort, A hunter resting beside his catch, oil on canvas, 109 x 166,5 cm. Lille, Palais des Beaux-Arts, inv. no. P 305

This illustration shows a painting of a hunter resting beside his catch, acquired in Lille as a Jan Vonck. For the last four decades the painting had been presented as the work of Jan Baptist Weenix. RKD curator Fred Meijer had already recognized it as the work of Pieter van Noort in 1985, on the basis of the RKD’s comparative material. The type of image is closely related to others by this Leiden artist who worked in Zwolle, and it shows his characteristic palette and handling of the brush, while the little dog that accompanies the resting hunter is a recurring motif in several of van Noort’s paintings. Fred Meijer has now been given the opportunity to explain this attribution in print in a catalogue entry for the publication accompanying the exhibition: Von Schönheit und Tod on still lifes with (dead) animals from the renaissance to modern art in the Staatliche Kunsthalle in Karlsruhe. Meijer contributed two catalogue entries to this book, as well as an essay on the history of Dutch and Flemish game still lifes from 1600 to 1800, spanning 30 pages and with over 50 illustrations. The exhibition In Karlsruhe is on view until February19th.

 

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