Dead Game and Weasels, ca. 1642

  • Jan Fyt, Flemish, 1611-1661

Oil on oak-veneered masonite panel

  • Unframed: 29 5/8 × 37 1/8 inches (75.2 × 94.3 cm)
  • 40 3/8 × 46 1/2 × 3 inches (102.6 × 118.1 × 7.6 cm)

City of Detroit Purchase

28.94

On View

  • Dutch Golden Age, Level 3, South

Department

European Painting

1890, Warneck (Paris, France)

1928, (Arthur Sambon, Paris, France)

1928-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 81. Valentiner, W.R. "Still Life Paintings." Bulletin of the DIA 15, no. 4 (1936): pp. 46-50 (ill.). Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 49, no. 81. Sullivan, S.A. "Frans Snyders: Still Life with Fruit, Vegetables and Dead Game." Bulletin of the DIA 59, no. 1 (1981): pp. 35-36 (fig. 10). Held, J.S. Flemish and German Painting of the 17th Century, The Collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1982, pp. 58-60 (ill.). Cohen, Sarah R. Picturing Animals in Early Modern Europe: Art and Soul. London, 2022, p. 163 (fig. 7.11).

Jan Fyt, Dead Game and Weasels, ca. 1642, oil on oak-veneered masonite panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 28.94.