Live Auction 2866The Decorative Arts Sale
Manner of Frans Snijders
Lot 330

Manner of Frans Snijders

A concert of birds: peacocks, a parrot, a herron, a tucan, pigeons, a vulture, magpies, a bat and various other birds on a tree branch

Closed22 June 2011

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EUR 15,000

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Manner of Frans Snijders
A concert of birds: peacocks, a parrot, a herron, a tucan, pigeons, a vulture, magpies, a bat and various other birds on a tree branch
oil on canvas
102.9 x 138.7 cm.

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 8 July 1994, lot 126, as 'Follower of Frans Snyders'.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Milan, 1 June 2004, lot 159, as 'Circle of Frans Snyders', where purchased by the present owner.

Specialist note

The composition is derived from the picture by Frans Snyders in the Hermitage, Leningrad (inv.no. 607). However, Hella Robels believes the picture in the Hermitage is painted by Snyder's pupil, Paul de Vos (see: H. Robels, Frans Snyders, Munich, 1989, p. 465).