A Butcher's Stall
Frans Snyders (Antwerp 1579 - Antwerp 1657) and Studio
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1600 - 1669
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1800 x 3300 mm (E)
Place of origin
Flanders (Belgium from 1830)
Order this imageCollection
Plas Newydd, Anglesey
NT 1175930
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Butcher's Stall by Frans Snyders (Antwerp 1579 - Antwerp 1657) and Studio. A large landscape format painting showing a butcher's stall with dead animals and birds, including deer, hares, herons, peacock, snipe, curlew and song birds. Also includes a possible self -portrait.
Provenance
Accepted by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax and allocated to the National Trust for display at Plas Newydd, 2016.
Credit line
Plas Newydd, The Collection of the Marquess of Anglesey (on long-term loan to the National Trust)
Makers and roles
Frans Snyders (Antwerp 1579 - Antwerp 1657) and Studio, artist
References
Robels, 1989: Hella Robels, Frans Snyders: Stilleben- und Tiermaler 1579-1657, Munich 1989, no. 51, pp.214-215, illus.