# Still Life with Game Fowl

**Juan Sánchez Cotán** (Spanish, 1560–1627)  
c. 1600–3  
Oil on canvas  
67.8 × 88.7 cm (26 11/16 × 34 15/16 in.); Framed: 86.4 × 108 × 7 cm (34 × 42 1/2 × 2 3/4 in.)

Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1955.1203. [The museum's record](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/84709).

## About this work

Juan Sánchez Cotán painted this in about 1600–3, aged about 40. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

### What you’re looking at

Still life painting of dead waterfowl and vegetables in windowsill.

_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.

### [Juan Sánchez Cotán](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/juan-sanchez-cotan)

Spanish, 1560–1627

## Facts

- Type: Painting
- Culture: Spain
- The artist was about 40
- Real size: about 26 × 35 in (67 × 88 cm). The 24 × 36 in print is close to life size.
- Century: 16th century
- Subjects: still life, window, birds, cabbages, ducks, food, fowl, fruit
- Colour: brown
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

## Get it

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