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Title

The boar hunt

circa 1650s

Artist

Frans Snyders

Belgium

baptised 11 November 1579 - 19 Aug 1657

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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

Media category

Painting

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

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Artist information

Frans Snyders

Works in the collection

1

Shown in 1 exhibition

Exhibition history

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).