A basket overflowing with grapes and surrounded by dead birds and more fruit sits on a long table covered in a scarlet-red cloth in this horizontal still life painting. In the basket at the center of the painting, luminous green, blue-black, red, and purple grapes are piled up in a rough pyramid that overflows the sides. Long stems with broad sage and celery-green leaves edged with brown jut up above and to the side of the bunches of grapes, nearly touching the top edge of the painting. Just in front of the basket to our left, a bowl overflowing with a bunch of purple grapes is tipped toward…
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Still Life with Grapes and Game

painter Frans Snyders (Flemish, 1579 - 1657)

c. 1630

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 90.2 x 112.1 cm (35 1/2 x 44 1/8 in.) ; framed: 111.8 x 133.4 x 7 cm (44 x 52 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.)
Culture
Flemish
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Gift of The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund in Honor of the Twentieth Anniversary of the Circle of the National Gallery of Art
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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