Jan Fijt was probably a student of Frans Snijders and the teacher of Peter Boel. He led a productive and successful workshop in Antwerp. His painting is more sophisticated than that of his mentor Frans Snijders, and reflects the preferences of his mainly aristocratic clientele. Several of his compositions exist, and also a number of replicas. As a specialist in still life, he painted both flower and fruit still lifes, as well as hunting and animal pieces. Fijt had an enduring influence on the genre, both in Italy and in the Netherlands. Numerous imitators copied his style. Because of the beauty of his brushwork and the richness of the thickly applied paint, Fijt is considered to be our most important animal painter. The spoils of the hunt in this still life include the head of a wild boar and a dead peacock.
| Artist |
Joannes Fijt
RKD
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| Title | Hunting Trophy with Dead Peacock and Boar’s Head |
| Date | 1646 |
| Period | 17th century |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signature and year left centre: Joannes FŸT / 1646. |
| Collection | paintings AAT |
| Object type | oil paintings (visual works) AAT |
| Inventory number | 1907-F |
| Acquisition credit |
gift
The Friends of the Museum Ghent 1907 |
| Current whereabouts | Work on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1907-F |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/450/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus | 300015638 still lifes AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
25F24(WILD BOAR)
hoofed animals (WILD BOAR)
Iconclass
25F26(HARE) rodents: hare Iconclass 25F35(PEACOCK) ornamental birds: peacock Iconclass 25F38(PARTRIDGE) walker and runner birds: partridge Iconclass 34B232 fowl (cock, hen, chicken, etc.) Iconclass 34E3 animals tied up Iconclass 41A7751 container made of plant material other than wood: basket Iconclass 41C6 foodstuffs; still life of foodstuffs Iconclass 41C653 fruit Iconclass 41E still life of miscellaneous objects Iconclass 41E1 still life of related objects Iconclass 43C1113 bird hunting Iconclass 47B1814(+3) butcher, slaughterman (+ technical aspects ~ crafts, industries, agriculture) Iconclass 47D8(AXE) tools, aids, implements ~ crafts and industries: axe Iconclass 48C24(+32) piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture (+ sculpture) Iconclass |
| School / Style | Baroque AAT |
| Jan Fyt (Fonds Richard de Moor). - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] |
| Museum van Schoone Kunsten : Catalogus ; Oude Meesters, Schilderstukken, teekeningen, plaatsneden (met geschiedkundig overzicht) / Maurice Dupuis, Georges Charles Nicolas Marie Hulin de Loo, Fritz Van Loo. - Gent : Drukkerij F. De Vos, 1938 ; Gent : Stad Gent, 1938 (p. 59) |
| Les peintres flamands de nature morte au XVIIe siècle [1956] / Edith Greindl. - Bruxelles : Elsevier, 1956 (p. 160) |
| Les peintres flamands de nature morte au XVIIe siècle / Edith Greindl. - Sterrebeek : Editions d'Art Michel Lefebvre, 1983 (p. 349, nr. 60) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. I, p. 89 (ill.)) |
| L' Oiseau Bleu : Op zoek naar geluk (tentoonstelling Gent, Sint-Pietersabdij, 09.12.2011 - 22.04.2012) / André Capiteyn, Christian Angelet, Martine Van Asch, Robert Beachboard, W.F. Vande Walle. - Gent : Kunsthal Sint-Pietersabdij, 2011 ; Gent : Uitgeverij Snoeck, 2011 |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : De collectie (tentoonstelling vanaf 21 maart 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2021 |
| Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand : La Collection (exposition dès le 21 mars 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gand : Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand, 2021 |
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