Dead Birds and Shot Bags

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Dead Birds and Shot Bags

Attributed to Pieter Boel (Flemish, 1622-1674)LinkedCulture matchlcp-37ad92d3ce22

Date
c. 1660
Medium
Oil on canvas
Culture
Flanders
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
84096

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Arranged in sinuous poses to emphasize individual feathers and decorative patterns in the plumage, the lifeless birds in this painting demonstrate the artist’s careful attention to reproducing the natural world. Pieter Boel, who specialized in the game still lifes popularized in the Southern Netherlands by Frans Snyders , executed highly naturalistic representations of fowl and canines during his years in Antwerp. The heightened shadows in this work reflect Boel’s study of Italian painting during a stay there in the 1640s.

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Credit line
A. A. Munger Collection
Provenance
Adolf Mayer, Mannheim and The Hague, by December 1936 [see The Hague 1936 exh. cat., no. 77, and label on reverse of stretcher]; by descent to his sons, Adolf I. Mayer Jr., New York, and H. Herbert Mayer, The Hague [see forward of 1948 Oberlin exh. cat.]; probably offered for sale by Adolf I. Mayer Jr. and H. Herbert Mayer through Van Diemen-Lilienfeld Gallery, New York [see forward of Oberlin 1948 exh. cat. and Van Diemen and Lilienfeld label on reverse of stretcher]; sold by Van Diemen-Lilienfeld Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1955.

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Object type
AAT300033618

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