Dead Game on a Table
manner of Frans Snyders (Antwerp 1579 - Antwerp 1657)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1600 - 1699
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1638 x 2083 mm (64 ½ x 82 in)
Place of origin
Flanders
Order this imageCollection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 108911
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Dead Game on a Table, in the manner of Frans Snyders (Antwerp 1579 - Antwerp 1657), 17th century. Still life with dead game on a table with a dog sniffing a deer's muzzle. A pupil of Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Snyders translated the still lifes of Jan Brueghel the Elder onto a large, dramatic scale, with the encouragement of Rubens, for whose pictures he painted still lifes and wild animals. Some of the elements recur in picures by Snyders’s follower Paul de Vos (c.1596-1678).
Provenance
Probably acquired from Dr Robert Bragge on 30th December 1756 for £84 and recorded in Dining Room in 1766; bought with part of the contents of Kedleston with the aid of the National Heritage Memorial Fund in 1987 when the house and park were given to the National Trust by Francis Curzon, 3rd Viscount Scarsdale (1924-2000)
Credit line
Kedleston Hall, The Scarsdale Collection (acquired with the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund and transferred to The National Trust in 1987)
Makers and roles
manner of Frans Snyders (Antwerp 1579 - Antwerp 1657), artist style of Paul de Vos (Hulst 1591/2 or 1595 - Antwerp 1678), artist