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Portrait of Frans Snyders
Portrait of Frans Snyders

Portrait of Frans Snyders

Artist (Flemish, 1599 - 1641)
Engraver (Flemish, 1610 - ca.1660)
Dateca. 1645
MediumEtching and engraving
DimensionsPlatemark: 9 5/8 × 6 1/8 in. (24.4 × 15.6 cm) Sheet: 15 1/16 × 10 3/16 in. (38.3 × 25.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Robert and Karen Hoehn
CultureFlemish
MarkingsWatermark: Mauquoy-Hendricks 7 (Two interlaced Cs with crown above, P B below), date 1645-1650 G. Usslaub collector's stamp in black on verso (Lugt 1221) Parial collector's stamp in blue on verso, probably Eugène Stuyck (Lugt 4191) Collector's signature handwritten in pencil, illegible, with date: 1903.
InscribedIn panel below figure: FRANCISCUS SNYDERS / VENATIONVM, FERARVM, FRVCTVVM, ET OLERVM PICOR ANTVERPIAE / Ant. van Dyck pinxit et fecit aqua forti Iac. Neeffs sculpsit
PortfolioIconographie
Catalogue raisonnéMauquoy-Hendrickx 11, state VII/VII
Object numberPC2015.14.03
ClassificationsPrint Collection
DescriptionHalf-figure portrait of man (Antwerp painter Frans Snyders), with slightly open lace collar and embroidered vest, standing with hands folded over one another and resting on decorative box/table at lower right, cape draped over figure's right shoulder at left, large partial column or wall behind figure at upper left, open sky behind figure at right.

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