Art Institute of Chicago

The Game Market

Richard Earlom (British, 1743-1822)

Date

1783

Medium

Mezzotint on paper

Culture

England

Department

Prints and Drawings

Institution

Art Institute of Chicago

Richard Earlom is known for his masterful engravings based on the works of contemporaneous artists and Old Masters. This richly detailed mezzotint closely relates to Frans Snyders’s Still Life with Dead Game, Fruits, and Vegetables in a Market (1981.182). The swooping white neck of the dead goose sprawled across the center of the table—and cutting across the center of the picture plane—mimics the similarly dramatic gesture found in Snyders’s Still Life , while the bountiful piles of feathers and flesh add exuberance to the scene.

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