River Scene with Ducks and Geese being attacked by Hawks
possibly Johannes Hermans, Monsù Aurora (Antwerp 1630 - Rome 1667)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1660 - 1699
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1638 x 2083 mm (64 ½ x 82 in)
Place of origin
Flanders
Order this imageCollection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 108906
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, River Scene with Ducks and Geese being attacked by Hawks, possibly Johannes Hermans, Monsù Aurora (Antwerp 1630 - Rome 1667), previously catalogued as possibly by David de Coninck (Antwerp 1636- Brussels 1699), inscribed in pencil on former top and bottom members of the stretcher (before it was turned upside down during (re-) lining: Hawks and Ducks and No.[?] Either bought in 1757 or 1759 to make it a pendant to Frans Snyders, Dead Game on a Table, NT 108911. David de Coninck specialised in hunting scenes and still lifes of game in the manner of his teacher Pieter Boel, and Jan Fyt. Bought in 1759 as by Snyders, to make a pendant to NT 108911.
Provenance
Possibly bought in Vandergucht’s sale of 1757 for 25 ½ gns./bought as by Frans Snyders in 1759; and thence by descent until bought with part of the contents of Kedleston with the aid of the National Heritage Memorial Fund in 1987 when the house and park were given to the National Trust by Francis Curzon, 3rd Viscount Scarsdale (1924-2000)
Credit line
Kedleston Hall, The Scarsdale Collection (acquired with the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund and transferred to The National Trust in 1987)
Makers and roles
possibly Johannes Hermans, Monsù Aurora (Antwerp 1630 - Rome 1667), artist possibly David de Coninck (Antwerp c.1636 - 1699), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Frans Snyders (Antwerp 1579 - Antwerp 1657), artist
References
Martyn 1766 Thomas Martyn, English Connoisseur, containing an account of whatever is curious in Painting, Sculpture, &c in the palaces and seats of the Nobility, Royal Society, London, 1766, Vol.II, p.97 Anon 1874 “The Private Collections of England. No.X – Kedleston Hall”, The Athenæum, 8 August 1874, no.2441, p. 184 Safarik 1984 E. Safarik, 'Chi è Monsù Aurora', in Scritti di Storia dell’Arte in onore di Federico Zeri, Electa 1984, II, pp.718-723 Roberts 1989 Hella Roberts, Frans Snyders, 1989 , No.A 255, p.474 Marchi 2008 Andrea G. De Marchi, Il Palazzo Doria Pamphilj al Corso e le sue collezioni, Rome 2008, figs. 125 & 126, pp. 164 & 165)