Hounds chasing foxes

Details

Studio of Frans Snijders (Antwerp 1579-1657)
Hounds chasing foxes
oil on canvas
68 x 94 7/8 in. (172.7 x 241 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 16 November 2011, lot 253.

Special notice

All sold and unsold lots marked with a filled square in the catalogue that are not cleared from Christie’s by 5:00 pm on the day of the sale, and all sold and unsold lots not cleared from Christie’s by 5:00 pm on the fifth Friday following the sale, will be removed to the warehouse of ‘Cadogan Tate’. Please note that there will be no charge to purchasers who collect their lots within two weeks of this sale.

Lot Essay

A picture by Snijders of similar but not identical composition, and of larger dimensions is in the Methuen collection, Corsham Court, Wiltshire (202 x 330 cm.). Snijders was also to deploy the central and left-hand parts of the composition in a vertical format for a picture in the Prado, Madrid.

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