The Lion and the Boar. From the Original Picture, Painted

by Snyders, in the Collection of His Grace the Duke of Newcastle by After Frans Snyders, Richard Earlom

$1,250 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A fine and rare coloured print by one of the most skillful of all mezzotinters after Snyders original A stirring and powerful illustration of the forces of nature at a climactic moment. Frans Snyders was born in Antwerp in 1579. He studied under Peter Breughel from 1593 and perhaps Hinorck Van Balen. He completed his apprenticeship in 1602 and went to Italy in 1608-1609. On his return to Antwerp he began by painting flower and fruit pieces and idyllic scenes and only later

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