A Stag Hunt
attributed to Jan van Kessel I (Antwerp 1626 - Antwerp 1679)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1663
Materials
Oil on copper
Measurements
381 x 533 mm (15 x 21 in)
Place of origin
Flanders (Belgium from 1830)
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 872110
Summary
Oil painting on copper, A Stag Hunt, attributed to Jan van Kessel I (Antwerp 1626 – Antwerp 1679), circa 1663. Two stags brought to bay by hounds near a stream beside a wood. Two huntsmen approach through the wood. A chateau on a plain in the middle distance.
Provenance
Accepted by the Treasury in part payment of death-duties from the executors of Edmund Robert Parker, 4th Earl of Morley (1877-1951) and transferred to the Trust in 1982
Credit line
Saltram, The Morley Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
attributed to Jan van Kessel I (Antwerp 1626 - Antwerp 1679), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Jan Fyt (bap. Antwerp 1611 - Antwerp 1661), artist Flemish School, artist