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- Reference number
- P01757
- Author
- Snyders, Frans (Flemish)
- Title
- The Fruit Girl
- Chronology
- Ca. 1633
- Technique
- Support
- Measures
- 153 cm x 214 cm
- School
- Theme
- Shown
- Yes
- Entrance
- COLECCION REAL
- Procedence
- Royal Collection
Frans Snyders' skill at painting
still lifes is extraordinarily
manifest in this painting. The
artist includes the figure of a
servant, which gives this painting
its name.
Snyders tended to include figures
in his large-format works, and
those figures were sometimes
painted by Rubens, as the two
painters often collaborated on
works. These figures are generally
set at one end or the other of the
composition, leaving the remaining
space for the depiction of the
natural elements, such as fish,
game or fruit.
The perfect rendering of the
textures of the objects represented
and the inclusion of living animals
—the parrot that pecks the fruit in
the basket, or the monkey smelling
a flower— are quite frequent in
Snyders' work. And so it the
exuberance of the elements, their
diversity and the variety of colors
employed.
This painting entered the Royal
Collection around 1636, when the
Marquis of Leganés gave it to
Felipe IV.
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