LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

21.26 in. (54.00 cm.) (height) by 33.23 in. (84.40 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'F.SNYDERS.FECIT' (lower left)

Exhibited:

Greenwich, Bruce Museum, Old Master Paintings from the Hascoe Collection, 2 April-29 May 2005, no. 14 (catalogue by P. Sutton).

Literature:

(Probably) G. Waagen, Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain, London, 1857, p. 278. E. Greindl, Les Peintres Flamands de Nature Morte au XVIIe Siècle, Brussels, 1956, p. 182. E. Greindl, Les Peintres Flamands de Nature Morte au XVIIe Siècle, Sterrebeek, 1983, p. 375, no. 93. H. Robels, Frans Snyders, Munich, 1989, pp. 249-250, no. 102.

Provenance:

(Probably) Sir Culling Eardley (1805-1863), 2nd Bt., Belvedere, Kent, by 1857. with D.A. Hoogendijk & Co., Amsterdam, 1989. Private collection, London, from whence acquired by the following. Private collection, Switzerland; Sotheby's, London, 3-4 December 1997, lot 63 (£199,500). with Rob Smeets, Milan. Private collection; Sotheby's, London, 7 July 2004, lot 27 (£229,600), where acquired by the Hascoe family.