JAN BAPTIST BOEL (ANTWERP 1643-1689)

Jan Baptist Boel, who was active exclusively in his native Antwerp, was the son of the animal painter Peeter Boel. Though only a handful of stylistically heterogeneous works by the artist are known today, parallels can be drawn with a large-scale, signed painting of bustards, ducks and a bird of paradise in a landscape that was formerly on the Parisian art market.

We are grateful to Fred Meijer for proposing the attribution on the basis of photographs.