Still Life with Game Fowl
1600/03
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
67.8 × 88.7 cm (26 11/16 × 34 15/16 in.); Framed: 86.4 × 108 × 7 cm (34 × 42 1/2 × 2 3/4 in.)
Classification
oil on canvas
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
84709
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Still Life with Game Fowl is the Art Institute’s earliest European still-life painting. Still life emerged as an independent genre in European art in the sixteenth century, when artists began to specialize in such categories as landscape, portraiture, and scenes of everyday life. Some, like Juan Sánchez Cotán, became interested in displaying their skill at depicting inanimate objects, in part as an expression of the order and variety of the natural world. The painter’s focus changed in 1603, how...