Lot 160: JACOBUS BILTIUS

JACOBUS BILTIUS THE HAGUE 1633-1681 BERGEN-OP-ZOOM A TROMPE L'OEIL STILL LIFE WITH TWO QUAILS, A KINGFISHER, A BIRD NET AND A WHISTLE signed and dated lower right: J. biltiùs - fecit - / 1666 oil on canvas 55 by 40.5 cm.; 21 5/8 by 15 7/8 in.

Private Collection, Netherlands;
With Rob Smeets, Milan;
By whom sold, New York, Sotheby's, 26 January 2006, lot 104, with its pendant for $216,000, where purchased by the current owner.

The loan of this picture has been requested for a major
loan exhibition on animal still-lifes from the Renaissance to Modernity to be held at the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe in Winter 2011/12.

The pair to this lot will be offered for sale at Sotheby's New York, 27 January 2011.