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Still-life with Dead Game on a Table

Drawing
ca.1615 (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Snyders, Frans (artist)
Place of origin
Antwerp (drawn)

Pen and bistre drawing, washed, the background tinted grey

Object details

Category
Drawings
Object type
Drawing
TitleStill-life with Dead Game on a Table (published title)
Materials and techniques
Pen and bistre, washed, the background tinted grey
Paper
Pen
Bistre
Drawing (Image-Making)
Wash Technique
Tinting
Brief description
Drawing; Still-life with Dead Game on a Table; by Frans Snyders, Pen and bistre, washed, the background tinted grey; Flemish School; c.1615
Physical description
Pen and bistre drawing, washed, the background tinted grey
Dimensions
  • Height: 176 mm
  • Width: 291mm
Style
Flemish School
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
  • Inscribed in brown ink: at lower right, Snyders; and at lower right (with the museum’s Dyce inv. no.), 537.
  • Inscribed on washed mount, in a nineteenth-century hand, in pencil (with the original Dyce inv. no.), 789.
Gallery label
Frans Snyders specialised in paintings of kitchen or pantry scenes with decorative arrangements of dead game, fruit and vegetables. He made this as a preparatory study for the painting Still life with a Huntsman (Mauritshuis, The Hague). Snyders collaborated with many leading artists from the Southern Netherlands including Rubens, who executed the figures while he provided the still life elements.
Credit line
Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce
Object history
Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830), London (L. 2445); Rev. Alexander Dyce (1798–1869) London, by whom bequeathed to the museum (L. 153b), 1869.

Dyce.537 can be regarded as a preparatory drawing for the painting of the Still-life with a Huntsman, in the Mauritshuis, The Hague, executed c.1615.
Subjects depicted
Game (Animal)
Fruit
Vegetables
Pigs
Still Life
Bibliographic references
  • DYCE COLLECTION. A Catalogue of the Paintings, Miniatures, Drawings, Engravings, Rings and Miscellaneous Objects Bequeathed by The Reverend Alexander Dyce. London : South Kensington Museum, 1874.
  • Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum (London, 2014), vol. II, cat. 544, p. 471
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
DYCE.537

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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