Frans Snyders
1579-1657
Still Life with Dead Game Birds and Deer
10 1/2 x 14 3/4 inches (266 x 375 mm)
Pen and brown ink, gray and brown wash, on paper; squared in black chalk; framing line in brown ink.
I, 235a
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: hunting horn within a shield (see Heawood 2645).
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower right, in a relatively old hand (same as that on I, 235), in graphite, "F. Sneyders".
Associated names
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
Stampfle, Felice, with the assistance of Ruth S. Kraemer and Jane Shoaf Turner. Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1991, p. 157, no. 326, repr.
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Century Drawings
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