Snyders, FransFlemish, 1579–1657Game Stall
Can I see it?
Yes, on view now
Where is “Game Stall” now? State Hermitage Museum, Room 245, Saint Petersburg. Yes, on view now. Checked August 29, 2026.
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Open now· until 9:00 PM
On public display.
- Checked
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
Details
- Accession number
- ГЭ-602
In the catalog
Sources
- State Hermitage Museum
- Image: State Hermitage Museum — Museum open access
In the life of Snyders, Frans
The whole life1593–1607 · Workplace
Antwerp
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.
1608 · Workplace
Rome
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.
1611
Married: Margareta Snyders
19 August 1657
Died
