{"product_id":"antique-french-still-life-with-game-bird-signed-heavy-gilt-frame-late-19th-c","title":"Antique Game Still Life Oil in Gilt Frame","description":"\u003cp\u003eAntique European Game Still Life Oil on Panel After Frans Snyders, Late 19th Century\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA small game still life on mahogany panel, signed with an F.S. monogram lower right and bearing a “Frans Snyders 1638” inscription in cursive on the verso. Late nineteenth century, in the manner of Frans Snyders.\u003cbr\u003eTwo small songbirds, likely a paired male and female bullfinch (bouvreuil), hang head-down from a slender cord tied with a painted bow against the bare wood ground. The trompe-l’œil hunting still life, with game suspended against a plain panel, was a genre invention of Frans Snyders in seventeenth-century Antwerp, then carried forward by Jan Fyt and Pieter Boel, and into the eighteenth century by Alexandre-François Desportes and Jean-Baptiste Oudry. By the second half of the nineteenth century, skilled European painters were producing accomplished cabinet pictures in this older style for a growing collecting market, and this is one of those, carefully observed and restrained in handling.\u003cbr\u003eThe piece was submitted to Sotheby’s, who declined to assign an attribution but did not dismiss it. The F.S. monogram is most likely a function as a signature paying homage to Snyders. The verso inscription, written in nineteenth-century hand, reflects how the picture travelled through dealers and collectors with the Snyders association attached. The mystery is part of the piece’s appeal.\u003cbr\u003eHoused in its carved giltwood frame with composition ornament including rope twist, laurel-and-berry, beaded fillet, water leaf, and anthemion frieze, characteristic of Napoleon III through Third Republic French framing of roughly 1860 to 1890. The frame shows expected gilt wear and small composition losses at the corners, all consistent with age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDimensions: 14¾ × 12¾ in. framed (board 8½ × 6⅛ in.).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"foundresse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56465910399142,"sku":null,"price":1375.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/7645\/6870\/files\/860A4175-C82B-45E8-A40D-5FD75D7446A7.jpg?v=1778705895","url":"https:\/\/foundresse.com\/products\/antique-french-still-life-with-game-bird-signed-heavy-gilt-frame-late-19th-c","provider":"foundresse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}