Leonard Knyff, 1650–1721, Dutch, active in Britain (by 1681)
Title:
Black Game, Rabbits, and Swallows in a Park
Date:
ca. 1700
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
35 1/2 x 56 inches (90.2 x 142.2 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed in light brown paint, lower left: "L Knyff"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1973.1.34
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
animal art | country house | landscape | deer | swallows | park (grounds) | black | courtship | feathers | birds | hunting | rabbits | hills | castle
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Country Houses in Great Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-10-10 - 1980-01-29)
Publications:
Christie's sale catalogue : Fine English pictures : 20 June 1969, Christie's, London, June 20th, 1969, lot 112, Fiche B51Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 136-137, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)Country houses in Great Britain., Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1979, pp. 9, 27-28,105, no. 8, pl. 8, N6764 Y34 1979 (YCBA)Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, p. 7, no. 8, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA)John Harris, The artist and the country house, a history of country house and garden view painting in Britain, 1540-1870 , Sotheby Parke Bernet, London Totowa, N.J., 1979, pp. 91, 111, no. 103, fig. 103, N6764 H36 + (YCBA)Notes & Queries : Identification of scene in picture (no. 956), Connoisseur, vol. 98, November, 1936, pp. 299, fig. 956, N1 C75 (LC) + oversizeYale Center for British Art, Selected paintings, drawings & books, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1977, p. 7, N590.2 A82 (YCBA)