Still Life with Dead Game, Fruits, and Vegetables in a Market

1614

This overflowing Flemish market stall is enlivened by dead animals splayed on the table, fighting roosters, and a pickpocket. An early example of Frans Snyders’s combination of ornamental still-life elements with secondary figures, this scene might have adorned the dining room of an aristocratic collector. Snyders was the leading Flemish painter of monumental still lifes. He regularly collaborated with his fellow Antwerp artist Peter Paul Rubens.

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Artist

Frans Snyders (Flemish, 1579-1657)

Date

1614

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

212 × 308 cm (83 1/2 × 121 1/4 in.); Framed: 251.5 × 348 × 10.2 cm (99 × 137 × 4 in.)

Origin

Flanders

Collection

Art Institute of Chicago

Credit

Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection