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Still-Life with Owl

Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent

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This unusual Still-Life with Owl was formerly attributed to Frans Snijders' most accomplished pupil, Jan Fyt. However, it is actually ascribed to another pupil of Snijders, namely Pieter Boel. These artists displayed true virtuosity in their rendering of the different textures of fur and plumage.

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Still-Life with Owl

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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