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Title
The boar hunt
circa 1650s
Artist
Frans Snyders
Belgium
baptised 11 November 1579 - 19 Aug 1657
About
Snyders was frequently employed by Rubens for whom he painted still-life elements and animals. From the 1610s he specialised increasingly in hunting scenes. The composition of this work is adapted from a picture of the early 1620s in the Muzeum Narodowe, Poznan. The artist later elaborated the scene in two large canvases of which one, signed and dated 1653, is in the British Royal collection at Kensington Palace.
Details
Date
circa 1650s
Materials used
oil on canvas
Dimensions
172.0 x 239.0 cm
Signature & date
Signed on the collar of the dog, lower centre left, brown paint "F. Snyd… fecit (indistinct)". Not dated.
Credit
Gift of Charles Davies-Scourfield 2005
Accession number
239.2005
Shown in 1 exhibition
Exhibition history
European Old Masters 16th-19th Century from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, 28 Sep 2017–03 Dec 2017
Provenance
John Brooks Close-Brooks, England, of Birtles Hall, near Macclesfield (Cheshire, England); by descent to his great-grandson Charles Davies-Scourfield
Charles Davies-Scourfield, New South Wales/Australia, Gift of Charles Davies-Scourfield 2005
Referenced in 7 publications
Bibliography
Anon., Le courrier australien, no 38, ‘BNP Paribas makes a significant contribution to the collection of Flemish paintings at the Art Gallery of New South Wales’, 2007, p 21, col illus on cover.
Anon., La Fiamma, ‘Art Gallery of NSW adds to its collection of Flemsih paintings’, Leichhardt, 22 Feb 2006, p 18, col illus p 18.
Richard Beresford, Art Gallery of New South Wales Foundation Newsletter 7, ‘Gift: Frans Snyders Boar Hunt’, Sydney, Dec 2005, p [5], col illus p [5].
Paula Dredge, Look, 'A huge project: lifting a veil of old varnish and conserving a treasure', Sydney, May 2006, pp 21–22, col illus p 21.
Paula Dredge, Look, 'The dog under the tree', Sydney, Feb 2008, pp 14–15, col illus p 15.
Malgorzata Sawicki, AICCM Bulletin, vol 32, ‘Laser cleaning from a practical perspective: cleaning tests of varies gilded-wood surfaces using Nd: YAG Compact Phoenix Laser System’, 2011, pp 44–54: pp 46, 49.
Art Gallery of New South Wales annual report 2005, Sydney, 2005, pp 20, 68, col illus p 21 (detail).