Attributed to Pieter Boel (Flemish, 1622-1674)
Dead Birds and Shot Bags
INV-8409
Attributed to Pieter Boel (Flemish, 1622-1674)c. 1660
Dead Birds and Shot Bags
Attributed to Pieter Boel (Flemish, 1622-1674) →17th Centurypaintingoil on canvas
Date
c. 1660
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
32.6 × 43.3 cm (12 3/4 × 17 in.); Framed: 49.5 × 59.7 × 6.4 cm (19 1/2 × 23 1/2 × 2 1/2 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
A. A. Munger Collection
Arranged in sinuous poses to emphasize individual feathers and decorative patterns in the plumage, the lifeless birds in this painting demonstrate the artist’s careful attention to reproducing the natural world. Pieter Boel, who specialized in the game still lifes popularized in the Southern Netherlands by Frans Snyders, executed highly naturalistic representations of fowl and canines during his years in Antwerp. The heightened shadows in this work reflect Boel’s study of Italian painting during a stay there in the 1640s.
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