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Willem van Aelst (Delft 1625/6-Amsterdam after 1683)
Dead Game with Trophies of the Chase Signed and dated 1657
Oil on canvas | 105.8 x 89.9 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 403984
Cumberland Bedchamber, Hampton Court Palace
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Still lives often reflect the character of the implied person who owns or has assembled the objects depicted. The owner here is an aristocratic hunter, with a fine hunting horn and dagger (with rock-crystal handle) both complete with sashes and tassels. He has also the hood for a falcon, so he must go hawking as well as shooting. The booty of the hunt is proudly displayed on a partially draped marble slab and hung from a nail above: a jungle fowl, a wader, finches, a kingfisher and a partridge.
Signed 'W. V. aelst. 1657.'Provenance
Probably acquired by Charles II; first recorded in 1688 in the King's Closet of the Private Lodgings at Whitehall Palace (no 508)
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Medium and techniques
Oil on canvas
Measurements
105.8 x 89.9 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
121.8 x 106.5 x 7.0 cm (frame, external)
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Still-life with dead game
