Lot Essay
The prototype of circa 1615/20, on canvas, 135 x 201 cm, has been in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich, inv. no.198, since 1836 (H. Robels, Frans Snyders, 1989, p.186, no.21, plate II).
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Chickens, a dead hare, artichokes, a bunch of asparagus, a melon, oranges, dead game, frais-de-bois in a klapmuts, a lobster on a porcelain dish, a dead roebuck, and a boar's head on a copper pan on a draped table, a cat and a dog nearby, with a page taking a bunch of grapes from a basket
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After Frans Snyders
Chickens, a dead hare, artichokes, a bunch of asparagus, a melon, oranges, dead game, frais-de-bois in a klapmuts, a lobster on a porcelain dish, a dead roebuck, and a boar's head on a copper pan on a draped table, a cat and a dog nearby, with a page taking a bunch of grapes from a basket
with signature F. snijders/fecit. centre right
oil on canvas
105.5 x 153.4 cm
Chickens, a dead hare, artichokes, a bunch of asparagus, a melon, oranges, dead game, frais-de-bois in a klapmuts, a lobster on a porcelain dish, a dead roebuck, and a boar's head on a copper pan on a draped table, a cat and a dog nearby, with a page taking a bunch of grapes from a basket
with signature F. snijders/fecit. centre right
oil on canvas
105.5 x 153.4 cm