Print from steel engraving titled „Et rasende vildsvin“.

Artist Frans Snyders or Snijders.

Engraved by De Garlieb.

From „Balled-Galleri af beromte maleres vaerker, indeholdende staalstukne Gjengivelser af italienske, spanske, frannske, flanderske, hollandske og tydske Mesteres mest fremragende malerier. Mede n Raekke Portraiter i Traesnit og en efter de nyeste og bedste Skrifter udarbejdet biographist Text.“ Andet Bind. Kjobenhavn. P. G. Philipsens forlag. 1877.

Frans Snyders or Snijders (11 November 1579, Antwerp – 19 August 1657, Antwerp) was a Flemish painter of animals and still lifes. Snyders was recorded as a student of Pieter Brueghel the Younger in 1593, and subsequently received instruction from Hendrick van Balen, the first master of Anthony van Dyck. He was a friend of van Dyck who painted Snyders and his wife more than once. Snyders initially devoted himself to painting flowers, fruit and subjects of still life, but later turned to painting animals, and executed with the greatest skill and spirit hunting pieces and combats of wild animals. He was one of the earliest specialist animaliers.His composition is rich and varied, his drawing correct and vigorous, his touch bold and thoroughly expressive of the different textures of furs and skins. His excellence in this department excited the admiration of Rubens, who frequently employed him to paint animals, fruit and still life in his own pictures, and he assisted Jacob Jordaens, Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert, Jan Janssens and other artists in a similar manner.In the lion and boar hunts which bear the name of Snyders the hand of Rubens sometimes appears. He was one of the executors of Rubens' will.

Approx. image size 17, 3 x 11, 9/28, 2 x 20, 3 cm.

Condition: medium.