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Market Scene on a Quay

Artist Frans Snyders and Workshop Flemish, 1579–1657

Datecirca 1635–1640

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions79 5/16 x 135 1/4 in. (201.5 x 343.5 cm)
Frame: 91 1/4 x 147 in. (231.8 x 373.4 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina

Object number52.9.113

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ProvenanceCreated Antwerp, Flanders [present day Belgium], ca. 1635–1640. Probably Henry Lowther, 3rd Earl of Lonsdale (1818–1876), Lowther Castle, Westmorland, Cumbria, England; by descent to Lancelot Edward Lowther, 6th Earl of Lonsdale (1867–1953), Lowther Castle; [his sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, March 7, 1952, no. 55, as A Peasant with Still Life on a Quay by Frans Snyders]; [David M. Koetser Gallery, New York]; sold to NCMA, 1952.Published References“Catalogue of pictures by old masters, also a few modern pictures the property of the Rt. Hon. The Earl of Lonsdale, O.B.E., removed from Lowther Castle” (auction catalogue) (London: Christie, Manson & Woods, March 7, 1952), lot 55, as A Peasant with Still Life on a Quay by Frans Snyders.

W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 136, illus. (b-w).

Hella Robels, Frans Snyders 'Entwicklung als Stillebenmaler, Wallraf Richartz-Jahrbuch (Cologne, 1969), 43-94.

Colin Eisler, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation: European Schools Excluding Italian (Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1977), 122.

Scott A. Sullivan, "Frans Snyders, Still Life with Fruit, Vegetables and Dead Game," Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of the Arts 59, no. 1 (Spring 1981), 34-35, illus. fig. 9.

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 134.

Edith Greindl, Les Peintres Flamands de Nature Morte au XVII Siecle (Brussels: Editions d'Art Michel Lefevre, 1983), 379.

Hella Robels, Frans Snyders: Stilleben und Tiermaler 1579-1657 (Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1989), illus. fig. 51.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (color) 118.

David Findley and David Goist, "Conservators Restore Snyders Painting," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Summer 1992), 14-16, illus. (b-w) 14.

Guy C. Baumann and Walter A. Liedtke, selected by, Flemish Paintings in America: A Survey of Early Netherlandish and Flemish Paintings in the Public Collections of North America, Arnout Balis, Carl Van de Velde and Hans Vlieghe, eds., Flandria Extra Muros series (Antwerp: Fonds Mercator, 1992), 368, illus. fig. 455.

Susan Koslow, "Frans Snyders Market Scene on a Quay," Unpublished article, 1993 (see curatorial file).

Susan Koslow, Frans Snyders: The Noble Estate, Seventeenth-Century Still-Life and Animal Painting in the Southern Netherlands (Antwerp: Fonds Mercator, 1995), 65, 67, illus. (color) 65.

Joseph P. Covington, entry for Market Scene on a Quay, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 87, 93, illus. (color) 93.

Elizabeth Alice Honig, Painting and the Market in Early Modern Antwerp (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1998), 153, illus. (b-w) 155.

Dennis P. Weller, Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings [Systematic Catalogue of the Collection] (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2009), cat. no. 69, illus. (color) 334.

Joseph P. Covington, entry for Market Scene on a Quay, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 196, illus. (color) 197, also mentioned and illus. (color) 19.

Everhard Korthals Altes, “International rivalry at the auction of Willem Lormier’s paintings in 1763: James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale, and August III, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland,” in Simiolus: Netherlands quarterly for the history of art 38, no. 4 (2015–2016), listed appendix, p. 282.

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