Lot 357: Dirk Valkenburg - Cat defends her game from a dog

Dirk Valkenburg
Cat defends her game from a dog
Oil on canvas. Relined
On the stretcher two labels: „Hund og kat, en død hane og frugter“ Sign J.Weenix 1715. […] Køb… Jacob Scavenius auction d. 26 nov. 1925 / Mr. J. Koumantaros Hotel King George Constitution Square ATHENS GREECE
31 × 36 1/4 in.

1715

Anonymous auction: Copenhagen, 14.12.1894, cat. no. 15 (as Jan Weenix) / auction: Copenhagen, Winkel & Magnussen, 26.11.1925, cat. no. 35 / Poul Gammelbo: Dutch Still-Life Painting from the 16th to the 18th Centuries in Danish Collections. Copenhagen, 1960, p. 158, cat. no. 241 (as Jan Weenix: A cat and a dog fight over a white, dead cock. In the background a park can be seen) / Auction 9577: Old Masters & British Paintings. London, Christies’s, 31.10.2013, cat. no. 124 (as Dirk Valkenburg: A cat protecting game from a dog in a landscape, Zuschreibung durch Fred G. Meijer, Den Haag)

Culture Minister Jacob Frederik Scavenius (1838–1915), Copenhagen (until 1894) / F. Scavenius, Copenhagen (until 1925) / consul general Zimmermann Becker, Copenhagen (from 1925) / formerly Großhändler C.P. Jacobsen, Klampenborg (at the latest 1960–2013)