Frans SWAGERS (Utrecht 1756-Paris 1836)
View of undergrowth with a hunter and his dog raising a water game.
Oil on original canvas.
On the reverse side inked mark of the canvas dealer BELOT rue de l'Arbre sec.
Signed down towards the middle under a tree.
65 x 81 cm.
On the Belot painting house, probably the first in France to have marked its paintings on the reverse side of its seal, in the 1800s and 1810s, see Pascal Labreuche's book Paris, capitale de la toile à peindre XVIIIème-XIXème siècle, pp. 208, 213 - 236 (Paris. INHA 2011).
