Hunting Still-Life with Dogs and a Dead Swan

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Pieter Boel, who specialized in game still-lifes, owes much to Jan Fyt. He may also have been one of his students, possibly after having first trained under Frans Snyders. Boel worked with a smoother touch than Fyt; the specifically Italian manner of still-life painting also seems to have been important in the shaping of his style.

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Hunting Still-Life with Dogs and a Dead Swan

About the Artist

Pieter Boel

1622 – 1674

Flemish painter. He probably went to Italy in 1650-51 and then became a master of the Guild of St Luke in Antwerp. In 1668 he worked for Charles Le Brun at his Parisian tapestry workshop, as well as being a court painter ('peintre ordinaire du roi'). Among other things he painted animals in the style of Fyt, as well as vanitas still-lifes.

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