SNYDERS - EARLOM. A Game Market.

Spectacular depiction of a market stall with game including a boar's head, a swan, a deer, ducks, chickens etc. On the left the merchant with a peacock on his arm. Under the title the inscription “'In the Collection of His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, at Clumber Park in Nottinghamshire”. Più sotto “The Empiress of Russia having purchased the Houghton Collection, the Proprietor had not time to make a Drawing from this Picture before their departure; The Duke of Newcastle having four Original Pictures by Snyders of the Markets, with very little variations, gave leave to make a Drawing from this Picture in order to make the set complete.