SNYDERS, Frans c. 1600
Oil on canvas, 144 x 157 cm
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe
Vegetable Still-Life er Flemish Baroque Era Painter, 1579-1657
Flemish painter and draughtsman, active also in Italy. He was the progenitor of Flemish Baroque still-life and animal painting. He worked intensively for about 50 years, producing an enormous body of works, of which more than 300 paintings survive , along with some oil sketches and about 100 drawings.
