A Partridge and Small Game Birds

Jan Fyt

1650s · Oil on canvas · European Paintings

This small game piece is a mature work by Fyt, whose subtle description of textures—especially in feathers—recalls Dutch still lifes more than works by his Antwerp teacher, Frans Snyders (1579–1657). The popularity of seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish painting in eighteenth-century France influenced painters as diverse as Chardin and Fragonard.

Artist

Jan Fyt

Date

1650s

Medium

Oil on canvas

Department

European Paintings

Credit line

Purchase, 1871