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A larder with a draped table laden with game, a lobster, vegetables and fruit in a basket, and kraak porcelain, with a parrot and two hounds
Auction: 12/06/2018
Lot: 29
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Frans Snyders AUCTION RECORDS
1579 Antwerp, Belgium - 1657 Antwerp, Belgium. Known for: Still life, figure, portrait, genre, animal painting.
Frans Snyders is the progenitor of Flemish Baroque still-life and animal painting. He worked intensively for about 50 years, producing an enormous body of works, of which more than 300 paintings... Read full biography
Frans Snyders is the progenitor of Flemish Baroque still-life and animal painting. He worked intensively for about 50 years, producing an enormous body of works, of which more than 300 paintings survive, along with some oil sketches and about 100 drawings. Through his own paintings and his... Read full biography
Frans Snyders is the progenitor of Flemish Baroque still-life and animal painting. He worked intensively for about 50 years, producing an enormous body of works, of which more than 300 paintings survive, along with some oil sketches and about 100 drawings. Through his own paintings and his collaboration with Rubens and other artists, his influence was considerable. His father, Jan Snyders, was the keeper of a well-known Antwerp inn favoured by artists. In 1593 Frans became apprenticed to Pieter... Read full biography
Frans Snyders is the progenitor of Flemish Baroque still-life and animal painting. He worked intensively for about 50 years, producing an enormous body of works, of which more than 300 paintings survive, along with some oil sketches and about 100 drawings. Through his own paintings and his collaboration with Rubens and other artists, his influence was considerable. His father, Jan Snyders, was the keeper of a well-known Antwerp inn favoured by artists. In 1593 Frans became apprenticed to Pieter Brueghel II. It is thought he was also a pupil of Hendrick van Balen. Snyders specialized in still-life and animal painting and became a master of the Antwerp painters' guild in 1602. His earliest known work, Still-life with Game, Birds, Fruit and... Read full biography
Frans Snyders is the progenitor of Flemish Baroque still-life and animal painting. He worked intensively for about 50 years, producing an enormous body of works, of which more than 300 paintings survive, along with some oil sketches and about 100 drawings. Through his own paintings and his collaboration with Rubens and other artists, his influence was considerable. His father, Jan Snyders, was the keeper of a well-known Antwerp inn favoured by artists. In 1593 Frans became apprenticed to Pieter Brueghel II. It is thought he was also a pupil of Hendrick van Balen. Snyders specialized in still-life and animal painting and became a master of the Antwerp painters' guild in 1602. His earliest known work, Still-life with Game, Birds, Fruit and Vegetables (1603; ex-Gal. Willems, Brussels, 1956, see Greindl, 1983, p. 287), almost seems to be cut o... Read full biography
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Art images copyright© of artist or assigneeGame, fruit basket and vase of flowers on a table, near which stand two dogs
Frans Snyders Auction: 03/22/2023Lot: 53Subscribe or get free alerts
Art images copyright© of artist or assigneeFruit dish on a chair surrounded by a parrot, a monkey and a dog
Frans Snyders Auction: 04/30/2025Lot: 19Subscribe or get free alerts
Art images copyright© of artist or assigneeA 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
Frans Snyders Auction: 11/14/2006Lot: 36Subscribe or get free alerts
Art images copyright© of artist or assigneeGrapes in a basket and in a Wan-li 'Kraak' porselein bowl with figs in a tazza on a red draped ledge with a woodcock, pheasants, a partridge and other birds
Frans Snyders Auction: 07/08/2005Lot: 50Subscribe or get free alerts
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