Lot 138: Nicolaes Cave , Antwerp 1619 - 1651 A still life with a live hawk perched on a dead partridge, a kingfisher, finches and other dead game in a woven basket oil on panel

oil on panel

measurements note 31.7 by 52.5 cm.

P.H. Decoteau, Clara Peeters 1594 - ca. 1640, Lingen 1992, pp. 63, 65-6, reproduced p. 65, fig. 50.

With Leger Galleries, London, by 1972 (according to a label on the reverse);
M.G.G. Herrick, Brussels, by 1973 (both the above as by J. Vonck);
F. Devaux, Brussels, by 2008.

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
This work by the relatively unknown still life painter Nicolaes Cave is one of several versions, of which a signed one was recorded with Schlichte Bergen in 1993. Although much indebted to Clara Peeters, the stylistic elements in Cave's work do show a clear character of its own.