Manner of Frans Snijders

A concert of birds: peacocks, a parrot, a herron, a tucan, pigeons, a vulture, magpies, a bat and various other birds on a tree branch

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Manner of Frans Snijders
A concert of birds: peacocks, a parrot, a herron, a tucan, pigeons, a vulture, magpies, a bat and various other birds on a tree branch
oil on canvas
102.9 x 138.7 cm.

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 8 July 1994, lot 126, as 'Follower of Frans Snyders'.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Milan, 1 June 2004, lot 159, as 'Circle of Frans Snyders', where purchased by the present owner.

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Lot Essay

The composition is derived from the picture by Frans Snyders in the Hermitage, Leningrad (inv.no. 607). However, Hella Robels believes the picture in the Hermitage is painted by Snyder's pupil, Paul de Vos (see: H. Robels, Frans Snyders, Munich, 1989, p. 465).

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