Johannes Leemans (c. 1633 The Hague - 1688 ibid.) Trompe-l'oeil with birdcage and hunting utensils Still life arranged on a neutral brown wall with a large hunting bag, hunting horn, birdcall whistle, etc.; a characteristic work in terms of motif, composition and style by Leemans, who specialised primarily in a type of trompe-l'oeil still life in which various hunting implements are illusionistically hung on a wall. He usually arranged the objects symmetrically. Light and shadow reinforce the realistic impression, as do the rules of perspective used to reproduce three-dimensionality. Comparable works by Leemans are extensively documented by the RKD in The Hague. Oil on canvas, double; 70 cm x 57 cm. Frame. Cf.: Erika Gemar-Koeltsch: "Holländische Stillebenmaler im 17. Jahrhundert", vol. 3, Lingen 1995, pp. 584 ff. (in particular fig. 210/6, painting in the Seattle Art Museum). Oil on canvas, relined.