Game Larder Still Life: Hung Game, with a Swan and Peacock on a Table, and a Page holding a Parrot
Frans Snyders (Antwerp 1579 - Antwerp 1657)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1613 - 1614
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1448 x 2311 mm (57 x 91 in)
Place of origin
Flanders (Belgium from 1830)
Order this imageCollection
Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 533858
Caption
This is a version of one of Synder’s most often repeated and varied ‘game larder’ compositions. It has been suggested that the prime version is that in the Schonborn Collection at Pommersfelden. The Charlecote picture possibly appears in Willem van Haecht’s painting of ‘Alexander the Great visiting the studio of Apelles’ (Mauritshuis), which includes numerous famous paintings hanging on the walls. Snyders sometimes collaborated with Rubens, painting aspects of still-life in his pictures.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Game Larder Still Life: Hung Game, with a Swan and Peacock on a Table and a Page holding a Parrot, by Frans Snyders (Antwerp 1579 - Antwerp 1657), 1613-14. A table with a red table-cloth and a profusion of dead game, including swan, peacock and song birds; a young roe and boar hanging right, a deer, left; a dog in the foreground and at the left a boy in yellow and black striped jerkin, holding a parrot. Framed in an 18th Century giltwood frame with carved running dog ornament on flat and egg-and-date forming outer edge Purchased in 1836 by Mary Elizabeth Lucy at Mrs Piozzi's posthumous sale (bibliographic reference).
Provenance
On loan from Sir Edmund Fairfax-Lucy, 6th Bt (b. 1945).
Makers and roles
Frans Snyders (Antwerp 1579 - Antwerp 1657), artist
References
Robels, 1989: Hella Robels, Frans Snyders: Stilleben- und Tiermaler 1579-1657, Munich 1989, p. 524, no. V 146