Lot 32
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Frans Snijders and Jan Wildens, Antwerp 1584 - 1653 Antwerp 1579 - 1657

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Description

  • Frans Snyders
  • hounds bringing down a boar
  • oil on canvas

Provenance

Possibly acquired by John, 3rd Earl of Bute (1715-1791);
John, 2nd Marquess of Bute (1793-1848), Bute House, South Audley Street, London;
Thence by descent until sold ("The Property of a Charitable Trust") London, Christie's, 8 July 1994, lot 69, for £65,000.

Exhibited

London, British Institution, 1847, no. 90;
London, Bethnal Green Branch Museum, 1883, no. 214 (as Snijders).

Catalogue Note

This is probably the first version of a composition that Snijders subsequently employed in a painting with a different landscape - also by Wildens - in the Royal Collection, Kensington Palace, inv. no. 704 (signed by Snijders and dated 1653, oil on canvas, 202 by 350 cm.; see H. Robels, Frans Snyders, Munich 1989, pp. 334-5, no. 236, reproduced).