David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl
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Landscape with a dead hare.
Relined canvas 87 x 107 cm. Period frame.
Provenance
Bukowskis Auctions, International spring sale 2005, cat no 330.
Literature
Bertil Rapp, "Djur och stilleben i karolinskt måleri", Stockholm 1951, compare with picture p. 104.
Gunnar Berefelt, "Svensk landskapskonst", Stockholm 1965. SAK LXXIV, p. 67-68.
More information
Ehrenstrahl and his studio executed several landscape from the surroundings of Kungsör with different animals, amongst them a shot white hare. These paintings belongs to the first realistic landscape motifs in Swedish art.
The hill in the present painting can also be found in a painting by Ehrenstrahl from 1675 in the collection of Nationalmuseum in Stockholm. "Orrspel" number 4862 in the collection, see link below http://collection.nationalmuseum.se/eMuseumPlus?service=direct/1/ResultLightboxView/result.t1.collection_lightbox.$TspTitleImageLink.link&sp=10&sp=Scollection&sp=SfieldValue&sp=0&sp=0&sp=3&sp=Slightbox_3x4&sp=0&sp=Sdetail&sp=0&sp=F&sp=T&sp=0