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Fish Market, Snyders, Frans, 17th century

Fish Market

17th century · Painting · 207 × 341 cm

About the painting

In the museum's own words — in Russian

Жизнелюбие фламандцев и присущая им широта натуры воплотились в монументальных полотнах серии «Лавки» кисти Франса Снейдерса. Он был создателем совершенно особого типа натюрморта. Кажется, всё богатство и роскошь окружающего мира собрано в его композициях, впечатляющих своим чисто барочным размахом, динамизмом и яркой красочностью. Тут и разнообразные плоды, и всевозможная морская живность. Несмотря на то, что эти лавки – плод авторской фантазии, Снейдерс демонстрирует в них исключительное знание натуры, с неподражаемым мастерством передавая цвет и фактуру скользких тел рыб и ракообразных, заботясь при этом и о создании определенного декоративного эффекта, ведь эти полотна предназначались для украшения парадных апартаментов. Серия создана мастером в 1618-1621 гг. по заказу королевского сборщика налогов Жака ван Офема для его нового особняка в Брюсселе.

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Согласно задумке автора, серия служила аллегорией стихий: Земли, Воды, Воздуха и Огня (Солнца), но, кроме этого, иллюстрировала распространенную идею XVII в. о бренности всего сущего. Образы некоторых морских животных символизировали качества людей, например черепаха олицетворяла лень, а угорь изворотливость и лживость. Однако некоторая назидательность, свойственная фламандским натюрмортам, полностью затмевается великолепием и красотой даров природы.

State Hermitage Museum

Particulars

Meanwhile, in the life of Snyders, Frans

The whole life
  1. 1593–1607 · Workplace

    Antwerp

  2. 1602

    Becomes a master of the Guild of St Luke

    After training with Hendrick van Balen, who was Anthony van Dyck’s first master, Snyders becomes a master of the Antwerp Guild of St Luke in 1602.

  3. 1608–1609 · Workplace

    Milan

  4. 1610–1640

    A close collaboration with Rubens

    From the 1610s Snyders works with Rubens, who admires his ability to render the textures of fur and skin and often has him paint animals, fruit and still life in his own pictures; the collaboration is particularly close between 1610 and 1640. At first Rubens himself sketches the whole composition in oils and marks the place for Snyders’s contribution (“The Recognition of Philopoemen”, regarded as the first Baroque still life with figures), while in “Prometheus Bound” it is the reverse: Snyders makes the sketch, leaving space for Rubens’s figure. Contemporaries had difficulty telling their hands apart in joint works, and after Rubens’s death Snyders was one of the appraisers of the inventory of his collection.

  5. 1611

    Married: Margareta Snyders

  6. 19 August 1657

    Died

More by Snyders, Frans

All works

In the same room · Зал 245, State Hermitage Museum

Museum page
Accession number
ГЭ-604

Sources

  • State Hermitage Museum
  • Image: State Hermitage Museum — Museum open access
Snyders, Frans, portraitSnyders, FransFlemish, 1579–1657

May one see it?

Yes, receiving visitors

State Hermitage Museum

Saint Petersburg, Russia

Room245

On public display.

Checked
29 Aug 2026
In this state since
Aug 30, 2026
Source
The museum
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Fish Market, Snyders, Frans, 1620s

Fish Market

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Still Life with Grapes and Game

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Cook at a Kitchen Table with Dead Game on it

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Temptation of St Antony, 1650s

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Sea Harbour, David Teniers, 1650s

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The Kitchen, David Teniers, 1646

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The Kitchen, 1646

Rural Feast, David Teniers, 1646

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Rural Feast, 1646

Monkeys in the Kitchen, David Teniers, c. 1645

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Card Players, David Teniers, c. 1645

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In the catalog

PaintingsOilFlemish paintingBaroque17th centuryFlanders