Still Life with a Dead Stag

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Still Life with a Dead Stag

Frans Snijders
c.c.1650

794 - zaal 16

The Flemish artist Frans Snijders specialised in painting both live and dead animals. Here, the head of a wild boar, a large lobster and a dead stag form a lavish still-life, along with the artichokes and the basket filled with fruit.

The scene by the window, with a parrot and a cat fighting, is characteristic of Snijders’ work. It was a way of making his paintings come to life.

oil on canvas
121 x 180.3 cm.
Acquisition 1926