Still Life with a Servant and a Dog
studio of Frans Snyders (Antwerp 1579 - Antwerp 1657)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1600 - 1699
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1467 x 2464 mm (57 3/4 x 97 in)
Place of origin
Flanders (Belgium from 1830)
Order this imageCollection
Erddig, Wrexham
NT 1151295
Summary
Oil painting on canvas. Still Life with a Servant and a Dog, studio of Frans Snyders (Antwerp 1579 - Antwerp 1657). A large table piled with dead game, deer, lobster, peacock, vegetables etc. A dog is seen in the right foreground and a kitchen boy, holding a boar's head on a dish, is at the left.
Provenance
In inventory of the house of the late James Hutton in Park Lane, 27-28 July 1770 as ' A piece of dead Game, by Snider, figure by Rubens'; in undated early 19th century (circa 1820 at time of picture cleaning) Erddig inventory as Dead Game Snyders/ Figure by Rubens' and thence by descent; given by Philip Yorke III (1905 – 1978) along with the estate, house and contents to the National Trust in 1973
Credit line
Erddig, The Yorke Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: 'SNYDER' (label inscribed on gold paper)
Makers and roles
studio of Frans Snyders (Antwerp 1579 - Antwerp 1657), artist previously catalogued as by Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 - Antwerp 1640), artist
References
Hutton 1770 Inventory of the late James Hutton's house in Park Lane, 27-28 July 1770 , : Erddig 1800-29 Inventory of contents of Erddig, 1800-1829 Erddig 1914 Chronicles of Erthig on the Dyke by Albina Lucy Cust, (2 vols) 1914 , Vol.II. 303 Erddig, Clwyd: 1995 [The National Trust] 1995, p.45