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- Joannes Fyt (1611 - 1661)
- Possibly Erasmus Quellinus (1607 - 1678), (boy)
- Still life with a Page
- Southern Netherlands
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- Date: 1644
- Object Type: Painting
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Image size: 121.5 x 205 cm
- Frame size: 150 x 233 x 19 cm
- Inv: P101
- Location: Large Drawing Room
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- The dramatic, monumental composition set in a grand architectural interior is typical of Fyt’s work and of mid-seventeenth century Flemish still-life painting in general. A note of extra drama is added to the composition by the blood-stained cloth and the contrast of the dead game with the live monkey, dog and parrot. The boy appears to have been added by another artist: an attribution to Erasmus Quellinus has been suggested. The picture was thought to be by Frans Snyders (1579–1657) when purchased with a companion piece, Snyders’s Pantry Scene with a Page (P72).