Details
Workshop of FRANS SNYDERS (1579-1657)
A Peasant Woman holding a Bunch of Grapes, a Table laden with Fruit, and mixed Vegetables in a Basket
oil on canvas
57 1/8 x 79in. (145.1 x 200.7cm.)
Provenance
Désiré van den Schrieck, Louvain; sale, Étienne Le Roy, Louvain, April 8-10, 1861, no. 102, as Snyders (1,000)
Chevalier de Sekera (or Séquiera); sale, Étienne Le Roy, Brussels, March 24-25, 1868, lot 52, as Snyders
Count Cornet de Ways Ruart de Vanêche, near Brussels, 1870
William T. Blodgett and John Taylor Johnston, New York, 1870-71
Purchased by the museum in 1871
Literature
Catalogue of Paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1931, as Frans Snyders and Jan van den Hoecke
H. James, The Painter's Eye, ed. J. L. Sweeney, 1956, p. 59, as Snyders
K. Baetjer, European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980, I, p. 174; III, p. 375, illustrated, as workshop of Snyders
W. A. Liedtke, Flemish Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1984, I, p. 244-249; II, p. 103, pl. 93, as workshop of Snyders
W. A. Liedtke, Flemish Paintings in America: A Survey of Early Netherlandish and Flemish Paintings in Public Collections in North America, 1992, p. 20, as workshop of Snyders
Exhibited
New York, Co-ordinating Council of French Relief Societies, Jardin d'Éte, May 3-31, 1944, as Boeckhorst, as Jan Boeckhorst
