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Still Life with Dead Game, Fruits, and Vegetables in a Market
Frans Snyders (Flemish, 1579-1657)LinkedCulture matchlcp-c984c55a364f
- Date
- 1614
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Culture
- Flanders
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 62042
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
This Flemish market stall overflowing with dead game is enlivened by fighting roosters, an aggressive cat, and a pickpocket. An early example of Frans Snyders’s animated combination of highly ornamental still-life elements with secondary figures and a low viewpoint, this scene might have adorned the dining room of an aristocratic collector. Snyders was the leading Flemish painter of monumental still lifes. He regularly collaborated with his fellow Antwerp artist Peter Paul Rubens , contributing fruits and animals to Rubens’s compositions.
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- Credit line
- Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
- Provenance
- Olléon collection by late 19th century; by family descent to Jean Olléon, Paris until at least 1970 [according to letter from Hella Robels, dated July 31, 1988, in curatorial file]. Galerie Birtschansky, Paris, 1980. Galerie Maurice Segoura, New York, 1981; sold to the Art Institute, 1981.
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- Object type
- AAT300033618
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