A Garland of Fruit and Vegetables over Four Putti in a Landscape
Frans Snyders (Antwerp 1579 - Antwerp 1657) and Studio of Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 – Antwerp 1640)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1620 - 1629
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1740 x 2457 mm (68 1/2 x 96 3/4 in)
Place of origin
Antwerp
Order this imageCollection
Kingston Lacy Estate, Dorset
NT 1257220
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Garland of Fruit and Vegetables over Four Putti in a Landscape, by Frans Snyders (Antwerp 1579 - Antwerp 1657) and Studio of Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 – Antwerp 1640), signed on the garland: F. Snyders fecit; c.1620/29. Four putti play with one another and a dove, in a landscape setting, and under a massive garland of fruit and vegetables, forming a swag and two drops.
Provenance
Bought by William Bankes from the sale of the Altamira Collection in London on 1st June 1827; bequeathed by Ralph Bankes, 1981
Credit line
Kingston Lacy, The Bankes Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
56 (small black printed stick-on label, left-hand side of bottom frame)
Makers and roles
Frans Snyders (Antwerp 1579 - Antwerp 1657) and Studio of Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 – Antwerp 1640) , artist Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 - Antwerp 1640), artist Frans Snyders (Antwerp 1579 - Antwerp 1657), artist