Snyders, FransFlemish, 1579–1657Cook at a Kitchen Table with Dead Game on it
May one see it?
Yes, receiving visitors
Saint Petersburg, Russia
On public display.
- Checked
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the painting
In the museum's own words — in Russian
Этот виртуозно исполненный натюрморт представляет один из излюбленных мотивов Снейдерса — битую дичь. Художник изобразил здесь как охотничьи трофеи, так и битую домашнюю птицу: на столе мы видим серую цаплю, несколько куропаток и связку маленьких певчих птичек. В большой плетеной корзине поместились бекасы, фазан и куропатка, на стене висит выпь. Повар с большим кухонным ножом в руке склонился над невысоким столом и грозит коту, который пытается стащить свисающую со стола цаплю. Фигура повара, возможно, принадлежит кисти Яна Бокхорста. Картина является парной к произведению «Служанка с мальчиком в фруктовой лавке» (частное собрание, Шотландия).
State Hermitage Museum
Particulars
- Accession number
- ГЭ-608
In the catalog
Sources
- State Hermitage Museum
- Image: State Hermitage Museum — Museum open access
Meanwhile, in the life of Snyders, Frans
The whole life1609–1657 · Workplace
Antwerp
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.
1628
Becomes dean of the Guild of St Luke
In 1628 Snyders becomes dean of the Antwerp Guild of St Luke, which he had joined as a master in 1602.
1629
Jan Fyt joins as pupil, later assistant
From 1629 Jan Fyt studies with Snyders and then serves as his assistant. The master’s pupils are believed also to include Nicasius Bernaerts, Peter van Boucle (no written confirmation of his apprenticeship in Antwerp exists), Juriaen Jacobsze, Jan Roos and Paul de Vos.
1641–1642
A trip to the Dutch Republic
In 1641 and 1642 Snyders travels with other artists to the Dutch Republic.
