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Still life with a hare, tazza, grapes and crab
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A still life is a composition comprising motionless objects painted from life. The skill was to emulate reality as precisely as possible. Snyders’s brilliance in the genre was unmatched.
The hare’s stiff coat, the fragile porcelain of the small dish, the grapes’ translucent sheen and the gleaming metal of the tazza are rendered almost tangibly. An important place is occupied in the image by the boiled crab, the red of which the artist has used as a strong colour emphasis in the painting. This marvellous still life, which must have been done around 1613, only re-emerged recently and is an important addition to Snyders’s oeuvre.
Long-term loan, private collection
Frans Snyders (1579–1657)
Still life with a hare, tazza, grapes and crab
Oil on panel