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Fox With Two Herons
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Fox With Two Herons

ca. 1630–40

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk

Dimensions

7 5/16 x 10 15/16 in. (18.5 x 27.8 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Mary Oenslager Fund, 2001

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Frans Snyders

1579–1657Spanish Netherlands

Franz Snyders studied with Pieter Breughel the Younger in 1593 and perhaps with Hinrock van Balen. He was made a master of the Antwerp guild in 1602, and went to Italy in 1608, returning to Antwerp from Milan the following year. He married Margaretha de Vos, the sister of Cornelis and Pieter de Vos, and soon acquired a reputation. Van Dyck considered him the best of the collaborators of Rubens.