Attributed to Frans Snyders

A female merchant holding a cockerel, with game, asparagus, artichokes, utensils and a bowl of wild strawberries

Lot Closed

December 5, 02:30 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection

Attributed to Frans Snyders

Antwerp 1579 - 1657

A female merchant holding a cockerel, with game, asparagus, artichokes, utensils and a bowl of wild strawberries

oil on oak panel

unframed: 124.5 x 94.4 cm.; 49 x 37 1/8 in.

framed: 144 x 114.5 cm.; 56 3/4 x 45 1/8 in.

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 14 December 1984, lot 70 (as manner of Floris van Dyck), where acquired.

H. Robels, Frans Snyders, Munich 1989, p. 174, cat. no. 5, reproduced p. 173 (as Snyders, before 1610, the figure possibly by another hand).