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Excerpt from Catalogue of Engravings and Etchings Presented by George A. Hearn to the Cooper Union Museum: For the Arts of Decoration
Franz Snyders was born at Antwerp in 1579. He was a pupil of Hendrik Van Balen and Pieter Breughel. His first pictures were of still life, but he afterwards devoted himself to painting animals and hunting scenes. Rubens frequently employed him to paint the animals, fruit, etc., in his pictures. He was invited to Brussels by the Archduke Albert, and for him Snyders painted some of his finest works, particularly a stag hunt, which was sent by the Archduke to Philip III. Of Spain, who commissioned Sny ders to paint several large pictures of combats of wild beasts, and hunting scenes, which are still in the old palace of buen-retiro. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
