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<p>[QUOTE="Gerry Gorman, post: 91119, member: 1281"]Everyone has been very good to reply and voice their opinion. In my research still life oils featuring dead game were most popular in the mid to late 1600s and specific to the Dutch and Flemish regions of Europe eventually being copied by Italian, Spanish and French with Chardin being one of the most famous still life artists of the period. Oil on canvas laid on panel is a technique that has been used for several centuries, in fact as it is a method that is most laborious, it diminished in popularity during the 18th century where stretched canvass was preferred. That said artists to this day still use canvas laid on panel especially when depicting a work copying an old master technique. What attracted me to this work was the quality of the brush work and exquisite fine detail and I also think the composition layout is very pleasing to the eye whereas some similar still life paintings are too cluttered. I was hoping someone might be able to interpret the meaning of the pickle jar, the blood coming for the recently deceased hare's mouth, the object in the foreground. Are these symbols of death/life as one might find in a Vanitas painting from an Old master? G[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Gerry Gorman, post: 91119, member: 1281"]Everyone has been very good to reply and voice their opinion. In my research still life oils featuring dead game were most popular in the mid to late 1600s and specific to the Dutch and Flemish regions of Europe eventually being copied by Italian, Spanish and French with Chardin being one of the most famous still life artists of the period. Oil on canvas laid on panel is a technique that has been used for several centuries, in fact as it is a method that is most laborious, it diminished in popularity during the 18th century where stretched canvass was preferred. That said artists to this day still use canvas laid on panel especially when depicting a work copying an old master technique. What attracted me to this work was the quality of the brush work and exquisite fine detail and I also think the composition layout is very pleasing to the eye whereas some similar still life paintings are too cluttered. I was hoping someone might be able to interpret the meaning of the pickle jar, the blood coming for the recently deceased hare's mouth, the object in the foreground. Are these symbols of death/life as one might find in a Vanitas painting from an Old master? G[/QUOTE]
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