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Frans Snyders
Flemish, 1579-1657
Still Life with Dead Game, Fruits, and Vegetables in a Market, 1614
Oil on canvas
83 1/2 x 121 1/4 in. (212 x 308 cm)
Inscribed lower right: F. Snyders // Fecit 1614
Charles H. and Mary F.S. Worcester Collection, 1981.182
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam and Cleveland Museum of Art, Still-Life Paintings from the Netherlands: 1550 - 1720, June 19-September 19 and October 31-January 9, 2000, cat. 13 (ill.).
Publication History
Hella Robels, “Frans Snyders’ Entwicklung als Stillebenmaler,” Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch 31 (1969), pp. 49, 89, fig. 32.
Otto Naumann, “Letter From New York,” Tableau 4 (1981), p. 206 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1981-82 (Chicago, 1982), p. 9, fig. 2.
Edith Greindl, Les peintres flamands de nature morte au XVIIe siècle (Sterrebeek, 1983), pp. 72-3, 375, no. 68, figs. 44, 206.
Peter C. Sutton, A Guide to Dutch Art in America (Washington, D.C., 1986), p. 49.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Master Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1988), pp. 9, 31 (ill.).
Hella Robels, Fenas Snyders: Stilleben- und Tiermaler 1579-1657 (Munich, 1989), p. 183, no. 17 (ill.).
Paul Huvenne in Guy C. Bauman and Walter A. Liedtke, eds., Flemish Paintings in America: A Survey of Early Netherlandish and Flemish Paintings in the Public Collections of North America (Antwerp, 1992), pp. 298-99 (ill.).
Susan Koslow, Frans Snyders: the Noble Estate: Seventeenth-Century Still-Life and Animal Painting in the Southern Netherlands (Antwerp, 1995), pp. 67-74, 98-101, figs. 73. 115, 116.
Elisabeth A. Honig, Painting and the Market in Early Modern Antwerp (New Haven, 1998), pp. 152-52, pl. 16.
Ownership History
Olléon collection by late 19th century; by family descent to Jean Olléon, Paris until at least 1970 [according to letter from Hella Robels, dated July 31, 1988, in curatorial file]. Galerie Birtschansky, Paris, 1980. Galerie Maurice Segoura, New York, 1981; sold to the Art Institute, 1981.