A Still Life with Fruit and a Cockatoo
Frans Snyders (Antwerp 1579 - Antwerp 1657)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1620 - 1629
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
737 x 1041 mm (29 x 41 in)
Place of origin
Flanders (Belgium from 1830)
Order this imageCollection
Ascott Estate, Buckinghamshire
NT 1535138
Summary
Oil painting on panel, A Still Life with Fruit and a Cockatoo by Frans Snyders (Antwerp 1579 - Antwerp 1657), signed, bottom left: F. Snyders fec., 1620s. A basket of fruit is spilling over a table, with a cockatoo perched on the edge of the basket at the right; a glass vase of tulips and roses stands on the table at the left.
Provenance
Probably acquired by Leopold de Rothschild; given to the National Trust by Anthony de Rothschild (1887- 1961) with the house in 1949
Credit line
Ascott, The Anthony de Rothschild Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Frans Snyders (Antwerp 1579 - Antwerp 1657), artist
References
Ascott, Buckinghamshire, Scala, 2008 by John Martin Robinson and others [pictures entries by Karin Wolfe on basis of Gore entries, 1963 with contributions from Alastair Laing] , no. 47