The Game Market
Richard Earlom (after Frans Snyders (Flemish, 1579-1657); published by John Boydell (British, 1719-1804))
1783
- Medium
- Mezzotint on paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- 41.6 × 57.7 cm (16 7/16 × 22 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- England
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Langdon Pearse
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Richard Earlom is known for his masterful engravings based on the works of contemporaneous artists and Old Masters. This richly detailed mezzotint closely relates to Frans Snyders’s Still Life with Dead Game, Fruits, and Vegetables in a Market (1981.182). The swooping white neck of the dead goose sprawled across the center of the table—and cutting across the center of the picture plane—mimics the similarly dramatic gesture found in Snyders’s Still Life, while the bountiful piles of feathers and flesh add exuberance to the scene.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
