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Title:A Hare and Birds
Artist:Jan Fyt (Flemish, 1611–1661)
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:23 7/8 x 31 in. (60.6 x 78.7 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Purchase, 1871
Accession Number:71.44
Étienne-Joseph-Théophile Thoré (Willi Bürger), Paris (until d. 1869); private collection, Paris (until 1870); William T. Blodgett, Paris (from 1870; sold half share to Johnston); William T. Blodgett, Paris, and John Taylor Johnston, New York (1870–71; sold to The Met)
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Taste of the Seventies," April 2–September 10, 1946, no. 11.
Columbus, Ga. Columbus Museum of Arts and Crafts. "A Centenary of a Great Museum: Old Master Paintings," November 1, 1969–October 31, 1970, unnum. checklist.
T. G. A. "Fine Arts: A Collection of Old Masters in New York." Old and New 5 (May 1872), p. 629.
F[ritz von]. Harck. "Berichte und Mittheilungen aus Sammlungen und Museen, über staatliche Kunstpflege und Restaurationen, neue Funde: Aus amerikanischen Galerien." Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft 11 (1888), p. 74, as by Fyt.
Josephine L. Allen and Elizabeth E. Gardner. A Concise Catalogue of the European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1954, p. 39, as "Still Life: Hare and Birds".
Edith Greindl. Les peintres flamands de nature morte au XVIIe siècle. Brussels, 1956, p. 166, as among unsigned works ascribed to Fyt.
Colin Eisler. "A Chardin in the Grand Manner." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 18 (February 1960), pp. 204, 206, ill. p. 209.
Walter A. Liedtke. Flemish Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1984, vol. 1, pp. 99–100; vol. 2, pl. 43, calls this and "A Basket and Birds" (MMA 71.43) very probably pendants, possibly intended as overdoors.
Introduction by Walter A. Liedtke inFlemish Paintings in America: A Survey of Early Netherlandish and Flemish Paintings in the Public Collections of North America. Antwerp, 1992, p. 20.
Katharine Baetjer. European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born Before 1865: A Summary Catalogue. New York, 1995, p. 292, ill., as "A Hare and Birds".
Frances Suzman Jowell. "Thoré-Bürger's Art Collection: 'A Rather Unusual Gallery of Bric-à-Brac'." Simiolus 30, no. 1/2 (2003), pp. 70–71, 93, 112, 116, fig. 37.
Katharine Baetjer. "Buying Pictures for New York: The Founding Purchase of 1871." Metropolitan Museum Journal 39 (2004), pp. 197, 208, 245, appendix 1A no. 108, ill. p. 209 and fig. 34 (installation photograph).
This painting and A Basket and Birds (71.43) are probably pendants.
Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, Antwerp 1599–1641 London)
ca. 1620–21
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