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Frans Snijders Antwerp 1579 - 1657
Description
- Frans Snyders
- a still life of a hare, a pheasant, a partridge, song birds, asparagus, a melon, artichokes, together with a silver-gilt tazza with grapes and shrimps in wan-li bowls, all on a wooden table
signed and dated lower right: F SNYDERS . 1613
oil on panel
Provenance
Rothmann, London;
From whom bought by Kunsthandel P. de Boer, Amsterdam, in April 1939;
Sold to Dr. J.A. van Dongen, Amsterdam, in December 1939;
Thence by descent to the present owner, by circa 1962.
Exhibited
The Hague, Koninklijke Kunstzaal Kleykamp, Tentoonstelling van oude schilderijen der collectie N.V. Kunsthandel P. de Boer, Amsterdam, 8 June - 3 July 1939, no. 84 (wrongly dated 1617);
Dordrecht, Nederlandse Stillevens uit de zeventiende eeuw, 21 July – 2 September 1962, p. 36, cat. no. 89, reproduced fig. 14;
Amsterdam, Museum Willet-Holthuysen, Schilderijen, tekeningen en beeldhouwwerken 16e - 20e eeuw uit de verzameling van Dr. J.A. van Dongen, 25 April – 16 June 1968, p. 10, no. 18;
Laren, Singer Museum (on loan), after 1968-2006;
Venlo, Museum van Bommel van Dam, Asparagus Asparagus, 11 May - 26 June 1988, p. 13, reproduced;
Venlo, Limburgs Museum, Asperges in olieverf. Een koninklijke groente in de zeventiende eeuw, 22 April - 17 July 2005, pp. 66-67, cat. no. 8A, reproduced.
Literature
E. Greindl, Les Peintres Flamands de Nature Morte au XVIIe Siècle, Brussels 1983, pp. 72 and 373, no. 3, reproduced p. 279, no. 178 ;
H. Robels, Frans Snyders. Stilleben- und Tiermaler 1579-1657, Munich 1989, p. 255, no. 113, reproduced p. 256.
Catalogue Note
Although active as a painter at an early age - he is already mentioned as a student of Pieter Breughel the Younger (1564-1637/8) at the age of 14 - Frans Snyders developed into one of the most important still life painters in Antwerp only after his stay in Italy from circa 1608 to 1610 - although thereafter he established his reputation swiftly. This and another still life of a Hare, birds, Asparagus and grapes on a Tazza, also dated 1613, are the earliest dated paintings of this type after his journey to Italy. Around these dated works a group of other still lifes from this period of his early maturity can be grouped, all showing the same objects constantly re-arranged, such as the game, the tazza with grapes and the asparagus (see Literature, pp. 253-256, cat. nos. 110-112, reproduced).