Hunting Still Life
around 1640/50 | Frans Snyders
For decades, Snyders worked together with Rubens, and he was also a friend of Jan Brueghel the Elder and a highly admired representative of Flemish Baroque still-life painting. His best pupils were Jan Fyt and Paul de Vos. The hunting kill depicted here consists of starlings and other song-birds, a hare, a pheasant, partridges, black cock, wild duck and snipe. The cat looking lustfully through the window gives the still life a humorous accent.
For decades, Snyders worked together with Rubens, and he was also a friend of Jan Brueghel the Elder and a highly admired representative of Flemish Baroque still-life painting. His best pupils were Jan Fyt and Paul de Vos. The hunting kill depicted here consists of starlings and other song-birds, a hare, a pheasant, partridges, black cock, wild duck and snipe. The cat looking lustfully through the window gives the still life a humorous accent.
Artist:
Frans Snyders (1579 - 1657 Antwerpen) DNB
Time:
around 1640/50
Object Name
Painting
Culture
Flemish
Material/technology:
oak wood
Dimensions:
Overall: 75 cm × 107 cm
Framed: 95 cm × 126,5 cm × 7 cm
Signed
Inscribed at lower right: F. Snyders fecit
Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie
Invs.
Gemäldegalerie, 9695
Provenance
Coll. Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, Bowhill; 1974 acquired by the gallery St.Lucas, Vienna;