Frans Snyders
1579-1657
Basket of Grapes and Pears, Dead Game Birds and Hare, Chickens, and Cat in the Window
6 11/16 x 10 13/16 inches (170 x 274 mm)
Pen and brown ink, gray and brown wash, over black chalk, on paper; framing line in brown ink.
I, 235b
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: hunting horn within a shield.
Two on one mat.
Two on one mat.
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. 158, no. 328, repr.
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