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Lot 71

Frans Snyders
(Antwerp 1579-1657)
and studio
A kitchen maid holding a cockerel, with game, asparagus, artichokes, kitchen utensils and a bowl of fraises de bois on a table

5 July 2017, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£40,000 - £60,000

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Frans Snyders (Antwerp 1579-1657), and studio

A kitchen maid holding a cockerel, with game, asparagus, artichokes, kitchen utensils and a bowl of fraises de bois on a table
oil on panel
124.4 x 94.4cm (49 x 37 3/16in).

Footnotes

Provenance
Sale, Christie's, London, 14 December 1984, lot 70
Sale, Sotheby's, London, 6 July 1994, lot 118

Literature
H. Robels, Frans Snyders: Stilleben und Tiermaler; 1579–1657, Munich, 1989, p. 173-4, no.5, ill

Robels dates the present work to circa 1610, and suggests that the figure of the maid is possibly by another hand (see Literature). A related drawing, in which the composition has been extended to include the figure of a man holding game, is now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (ibid pp. 406-7, cat. no. Z3, ill.).

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