# Still Life with Dead Game, Fruits, and Vegetables in a Market

**Frans Snyders** (Flemish, 1579–1657)  
1614  
Oil on canvas  
212 × 308 cm (83 1/2 × 121 1/4 in.); Framed: 251.5 × 348 × 10.2 cm (99 × 137 × 4 in.)

Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1981.182. [The museum's record](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/62042).

## About this work

This overflowing Flemish market stall is enlivened by dead animals splayed on the table, fighting roosters, and a pickpocket. An early example of Frans Snyders’s combination of ornamental still-life elements with secondary figures, this scene might have adorned the dining room of an aristocratic collector. Snyders was the leading Flemish painter of monumental still lifes. He regularly collaborated with his fellow Antwerp artist Peter Paul Rubens.

_Text from the Art Institute of Chicago._

Frans Snyders painted this in 1614, aged 35. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

### What you’re looking at

An older man at left in red raises his hat toward a central table chaotically overflowing with dead game, fruits, and vegetables. The wings of dead birds and limbs of animals are splayed out at dramatic angles; a deer at center is suspended by his back legs. Live birds and a cat animate the scene.

_Description from the Art Institute of Chicago._

### How it was made

- **Oil paint.** Pigment ground in a drying oil, usually linseed. It dries slowly, so painters could blend on the canvas, build up thin translucent glazes, and rework a picture over weeks. Canvas replaced wooden panels in the 1500s because it is lighter and can be rolled.

### [Frans Snyders](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/frans-snyders)

Flemish, 1579–1657

## Facts

- Type: Painting
- Culture: Flanders
- The artist was 35
- Real size: about 83 × 121 in (212 × 308 cm). The original is larger than our largest print, 30 × 40 in, so every print is a reduction.
- Century: 17th century
- Subjects: still life, animals, towns, baskets, peacocks, boars, apples, man
- Colour: brown
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

## Get it

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