Three Huntresses returning from the Chase
Studio of Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 - Antwerp 1640) and Frans Snyders (Antwerp 1579 - Antwerp 1657)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1600 - 1669
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1549 x 1219 mm (61 x 48 in)
Place of origin
Flanders (Belgium from 1830)
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 872154
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Three Huntresses returning from the Chase, studio of Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Seigen 1577 – Antwerp 1640) and Frans Snyders (Antwerp 1579 - Antwerp 1657). Three figures, thought to be the wives of Rubens, nearly full length are walking to the left. The one at the left is holding dead game in her apron, the one on the right has a hare hanging from her hunting spear. Two dogs bottom right.
Provenance
Accepted by the Treasury in part payment of death-duties from the executors of Edmund Robert Parker, 4th Earl of Morley (1877-1951) and transferred to the Trust in 1957.
Credit line
Saltram, The Morley Collection (accepted in lieu of tax by HM Treasury, and transferred to The National Trust in 1957)
Makers and roles
Studio of Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 - Antwerp 1640) and Frans Snyders (Antwerp 1579 - Antwerp 1657), artist Frans Snyders (Antwerp 1579 - Antwerp 1657), artist Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 - Antwerp 1640), artist