Juan Sánchez Cotán, 1607 - Still Life with Game Fowl - fine art print

Still Life with Game Fowl was made by Juan Sánchez Cotán. The version of the masterpiece had the following dimensions: 67,8 × 88,7 cm (26 11/16 × 34 15/16 in ). Oil on canvas was used by the European painter as the medium of the painting. Besides, this artpiece is included in the art collection of Art Institute Chicago. This classic art public domain artwork is supplied with courtesy of Art Institute Chicago. Creditline of the artwork: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leigh B. Block. The alignment of the digital reproduction is in landscape format and has a side ratio of 4 : 3, which implies that the length is 33% longer than the width.

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This work, the earliest European still life in the Art Institute’s collection, was painted by a leading Spanish practitioner of this new genre. It employs Juan Sánchez Cotán’s signature format: commonplace edibles placed in a shallow, niche-like embrasure with an impenetrable, dark background evoking the larders in Spanish homes used to keep food fresh. Some of the artist’s still lifes contain few objects, while in others, such as this one, the recess is filled. The objects are painstakingly rendered, and their placement seems mathematically exact. The hanging quince and game birds are arranged not perpendicular to the bottom edge of the painting, but on a barely perceptible diagonal. Further enlivening the composition is the strong light that sweeps over the still life and creates a dramatic contrast of light and shade, of precise realism and abstract form. After 1603 the artist stopped creating these austere and powerful images. Sánchez Cotán left his successful artistic career in Toledo to join the Carthusian order as a lay brother at the Charterhouse of Granada. Thereafter, his work consisted solely of idealized religious images.

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