Dead Birds and Shot Bags
Attributed to Pieter Boel (Flemish, 1622-1674)
c. 1660
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Archival matte paper, 189 g/m² (10.3 mil), sourced from Japan, printed with multicolor water-based inkjet so every brushstroke stays crisp. Framed prints arrive ready to hang in a .75″ ayous-wood frame with an acrylite front. Sized to standard frames by cropping, never stretching — at most about 3% comes off one edge, which isn’t noticeable on most pieces, and we only offer a size when it stays that small.
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About this work
Arranged in sinuous poses to emphasize individual feathers and decorative patterns in the plumage, the lifeless birds in this painting demonstrate the artist’s careful attention to reproducing the natural world. Pieter Boel, who specialized in the game still lifes popularized in the Southern Netherlands by Frans Snyders, executed highly naturalistic representations of fowl and canines during his years in Antwerp. The heightened shadows in this work reflect Boel’s study of Italian painting during a stay there in the 1640s.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 32.6 × 43.3 cm (12 3/4 × 17 in.)
Museum record · 1 owner · 2 exhibitions
Provenance
- Adolf Mayer, Mannheim and The Hague, by December 1936; by descent to his sons, Adolf I. Mayer Jr., New York, and H. Herbert Mayer, The Hague; probably offered for sale by Adolf I. Mayer Jr. and H. Herbert Mayer through Van Diemen-Lilienfeld Gallery, New York; sold by Van Diemen-Lilienfeld Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1955.
Exhibitions
- The Hague, Oude Kunst uit Haagsch Bezit, December 12, 1936–January 31, 1937.
- Oberlin, Ohio, Allen Memorial Art Museum, The Adolph Mayer Collection, long-term loan exhibition beginning in 1948, catalogue published in Allen Memorial Museum Bulletin 5 (January 1948).
