About this artwork
This Flemish market stall overflowing with dead game is enlivened by fighting roosters, an aggressive cat, and a pickpocket. An early example of Frans Snyders’s animated combination of highly ornamental still-life elements with secondary figures and a low viewpoint, this scene might have adorned the dining room of an aristo- cratic collector. Snyders was the leading Flemish painter of monumental still lifes. He regularly collaborated with his fellow Antwerp artist Peter Paul Rubens, contributing fruits and animals to Rubens’s compositions.
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Status
- On View, Gallery 208
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Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
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Artist
- Frans Snyders
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Title
- Still Life with Dead Game, Fruits, and Vegetables in a Market
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Place
- Flanders (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1614
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Medium
- Oil on canvas
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Inscriptions
- Inscribed lower right: F . SNYDERS . FECIT . 1614 .
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Dimensions
- 212 × 308 cm (83 1/2 × 121 1/4 in.)
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Credit Line
- Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
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Reference Number
- 1981.182
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/62042/manifest.json