Apples, grapes, a pomegranate, figs and other fruit spilled from an overturned basked, with a monkey with a hazelnut and another with grapes on a draped table

Details

Studio of Frans Snyders (Antwerp 1579-1657)
Apples, grapes, a pomegranate, figs and other fruit spilled from an overturned basked, with a monkey with a hazelnut and another with grapes on a draped table
oil on panel
26 5/8 x 37 3/8 in. (67.7 x 95 cm.)

Provenance

by descent to G.N. Le G. Horton-Fawkes, Farnley Hall, Yorkshire; Christie's, London, 14 April 1978, lot 36. (£10,000).
with David Koetser, Zurich.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 12 December 1979, lot 95, as 'Frans Snyders' (£16,000).

Literature

E. Greindl, Les peintres flamands de nature morte au XVIIe sie'cle, Sterrebeek, 1983, p. 378, no. 203, as 'Frans Snyders'.
P. Lorenzelli and A. Veca, Orbis Pictus. Natura morta in Germania, Olanda, Fiandre XVI-XVII secolo, Bergamo. 1986, p. 213, fig. 102, as 'Frans Snyders'.
H. Robels, Frans Snyders. Stilleben- und Tiermaler, Munich, 1989, p. 296-297, 524, nos. 184 and V148 (V=whereabouts unknown).

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Lot Essay

The collection at Farnley Hall, Yorkshire, was largely formed by Walter Fawkes, best know for his patronage of Joseph Mallord William Turner, who was a regular visitor to the house. Fawkes' outstanding acquisition, Turner's celebrated Dort is now in the Mellon Centre for British Art, New Haven. The present picture was long believed and published as by Frans Snyders, until in 1994 the prime version appeared at auction (Christie's, London, 18 May 1994, lot 27.).

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