Still-Life with Partridge and Gauntlets

Still-Life with Partridge and Gauntlets is a 1504 painting by the Italian painter Jacopo de' Barbari.

The painting depicts a dead grey partridge, with two iron gauntlets, and a crossbow bolt passing through them.

To the lower right is a scrap of paper with the date and the painter's signature, and a drawing of caduceus, a symbol used by Jacopo de' Barbari.

The panel may have been made as the back or the hinged cover for a portrait, or as an amusing decoration for a hunting room.

The British Museum holds a similar drawing of a dead grey partridge by Jacopo de' Barbari, also dated to 1504, from the collection of Sir Hans Sloane.