The Game Market

Description

Richard Earlom is known for his masterful engravings based on the works of contemporaneous artists and Old Masters. This richly detailed mezzotint closely relates to Frans Snyders’s Still Life with Dead Game, Fruits, and Vegetables in a Market (1981.182). The swooping white neck of the dead goose sprawled across the center of the table—and cutting across the center of the picture plane—mimics the similarly dramatic gesture found in Snyders’s Still Life, while the bountiful piles of feathers and flesh add exuberance to the scene.

The Game Market

Richard Earlom

1783

Accession Number

80162

Medium

Mezzotint on paper

Dimensions

41.6 × 57.7 cm (16 7/16 × 22 3/4 in.)

Classification

mezzotint

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Langdon Pearse