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Peter Snayers or Pieter Snayers (1592–1667) was a Flemish painter known for his panoramic battle scenes, depictions of cavalry skirmishes, attacks on villages, coaches and convoys and hunting scenes. (p. 241-243, v.1; plate 92, v.2)Hans Vlieghe,
Flemish Art and Architecture 1585–1700
', New Haven: Yale University Press (1998): 173. He established his reputation mainly through his topographic battle scenes providing a bird's eye view over the battlefield."La batalla de Honnecourt" de Peeter Snayers
''Boletín del Museo del Prado'', no. 41, pp. 60–69. He further painted large landscapes and portraits of the aristocracy.Carl van de Velde, "Snayers, Pieter" ''Grove Art Online''.
at the
listing archives from 1453–1615, by Ph. Rombouts and Th. van Lerius, Antwerp, 1864, p, 485, on
In 1618, Snayers married Anna Schut, a cousin of the painter 
While working in Brussels he regularly visited his hometown Antwerp but never returned to live there. He collaborated with painters in Antwerp such as
at academia.edu He was thus an example of the 17th century 'aristocratization' of successful citizens. His pupils included Guilliam van Schoor and
Peter Snayers or Pieter Snayers (1592–1667) was a Flemish painter known for his panoramic battle scenes, depictions of cavalry skirmishes, attacks on villages, coaches and convoys and hunting scenes. (p. 241-243, v.1; plate 92, v.2)Hans Vlieghe, Flemish Art and Architecture 1585–1700
', New Haven: Yale University Press (1998): 173. He established his reputation mainly through his topographic battle scenes providing a bird's eye view over the battlefield."La batalla de Honnecourt" de Peeter Snayers
''Boletín del Museo del Prado'', no. 41, pp. 60–69. He further painted large landscapes and portraits of the aristocracy.Carl van de Velde, "Snayers, Pieter" ''Grove Art Online''.
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, ccessed 9 March 2017/ref> He was a regular collaborator of local landscape painters and also Rubens.
After starting his career in Antwerp, he moved to Brussels where he worked for the court. He was the principal military iconographer of the court in Brussels and the appointed court painter with the rank of lieutenant-colonel.David Kunzle, ''From Criminal to Courtier: The Soldier in Netherlandish Art 1550–1672'', Brill, 1 Jan 2002, pp. 309–313
Life
Snayers was born inAntwerp
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, where he was baptized on 24 November 1592.Peter Snayersat the
Netherlands Institute for Art History
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His father Lodewijk was the city messenger of Antwerp for Brussels.Frans Jozef Peter Van den Branden, ''Geschiedenis der Antwerpsche schilderschool'', Antwerpen, 1883, pp. 666–668 He was enrolled as a pupil of Sebastiaen Vrancx
Sebastiaen Vrancx, Sebastiaan Vrancx or Sebastian Vranckx (; 22 January 1573 – 19 May 1647) was a Flemish Baroque painter, draughtsman and designer of prints who is mainly known for his battle scenes, a genre that he pioneered in Netherlandish ...
in Antwerp's Guild of St. Luke
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in 1612.De liggeren en andere historische archieven der Antwerpsche sint Lucasgildelisting archives from 1453–1615, by Ph. Rombouts and Th. van Lerius, Antwerp, 1864, p, 485, on
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Sebastiaen Vrancx was a prominent battle and genre painter. In 1613, Snayers became a master in the Guild.
In 1618, Snayers married Anna Schut, a cousin of the painter Cornelis Schut
Cornelis Schut (13 May 1597 – 29 April 1655) was a Flemish painter, draughtsman, engraver and tapestry designer who specialized in religious and mythological scenes. Presumed to have trained under Rubens, he treated Counter-Reformation ...
. Their first child Cornelis was baptized on 8 September 1620. Snayers achieved success as an artist. In Antwerp, the family lived in luxury and Snayers participated annually in the lavish banquet of the chamber of rhetoric
Chambers of rhetoric ( nl, rederijkerskamers) were dramatic societies in the Low Countries. Their members were called Rederijkers (singular Rederijker), from the French word 'rhétoricien', and during the 15th and 16th centuries were mainly inte ...
Violieren.
Snayers joined the painters' guild in Brussels on 16 June 1628. He became a citizen of Brussels at the same time.Konrad Renger and Claudia Denk, ''Flämische Malerei des Barock in der Alten Pinakothek'', Munich: Pinakothek-DuMont (2002): 167. It is believed he had been working for the Archduke Albert (died in 1621) while living in Antwerp. He had been appointed court painter and 'domesticq van 't Hof" (domestic of the court) by the Archduke.Jonathan Israel, ''Conflicts of Empires: Spain, the Low Countries and the Struggle for World Supremacy, 1585–1713'', A&C Black, 1 July 1997, p. 20 Snayers likely moved to Brussels in order to pursue opportunities at the court of the Archduchess Isabella, the widow of the Archduke and the governess of the Southern Netherlands.
After Isabella's death in 1633, Snayers became court painter to the next two governors, the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria
Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand (also known as Don Fernando de Austria, Cardenal-Infante Fernando de España and as Ferdinand von Österreich; May 1609 or 1610 – 9 November 1641) was Governor of the Spanish Netherlands, Cardinal of the Holy Catholic ...
(1634–1641) and the Archduke Leopold (Wilhelm) (1647–1656). For them he painted scenes of victorious battles in the tradition of sixteenth-century tapestries
Tapestry is a form of textile art, traditionally woven by hand on a loom. Tapestry is weft-faced weaving, in which all the warp threads are hidden in the completed work, unlike most woven textiles, where both the warp and the weft threads may ...
. He painted portraits of the aristocracy in Brussels and large landscapes. He also worked for other eminent patrons and the open market. A highlight in his career was a commission for 22 battle paintings by general Ottavio Piccolomini
Ottavio Piccolomini, 1st Duke of Amalfi (11 November 1599 – 11 August 1656) was an Italian nobleman whose military career included service as a Spanish general and then as a field marshal of the Holy Roman Empire.
Early life
Ottavio was born ...
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While working in Brussels he regularly visited his hometown Antwerp but never returned to live there. He collaborated with painters in Antwerp such as Peter Paul Rubens
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (; ; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat from the Duchy of Brabant in the Southern Netherlands (modern-day Belgium). He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque traditio ...
on several occasions, including on the never-finished ''Life of Henry IV'' cycle (1628–30) and the Torre de la Parada
The Torre de la Parada is a former hunting lodge that was located in present-day Monte de El Pardo in Fuencarral-El Pardo, near the Royal Palace of El Pardo, some way outside Madrid in the Sierra de Guadarrama. It was mostly destroyed by fire whe ...
series ( 1637–1640). Both during his Antwerp and his Brussels periods, He mingled with the elite of his time. He climbed the social ladder and aspired to live a lifestyle similar to that of the aristocrats of his day.Leen Kelchtermans, ''Geschilderde gevechten, gekleurde verslagen. Een contextuele analyse van Peter Snayers' (1592–1667) topografische strijdtaferelen voor de Habsburgse elite tussen herinnering en verheerlijking.''at academia.edu He was thus an example of the 17th century 'aristocratization' of successful citizens. His pupils included Guilliam van Schoor and
Adam Frans van der Meulen
Adam Frans van der Meulen or Adam-François van der MeulenAdam Frans van der Meulen
at the
at Brepols Snayers generally did not include in his compositions any explanatory signs, symbols or legends that would help the viewer in identifying which battle was depicted. The absence of such explanatory elements preserved the realism of the picture but also required the viewer to have prior information to understand the subject. As most of his works were commissioned by the highest military leaders in the Habsburg (Spanish and Imperial) army they would have known the scenes depicted. His large canvases clearly played a dual role: they documented the historical event and at the same time they glorified the military men who participated in the action. The compositions were painted from the point of the patron who commissioned them. Equestrian portraits of the patrons and their coats of arms were included so that their military feats were immortalized. The compositions thus justified the patrons' eminent status in society as well as their loyalty to the Habsburg court. The heroic images were also intended to serve as a model for later generations. As his works' distribution remained limited to the Spanish side, the decay of the Habsburg dynasty in the second half of the 17th century affected the artist's international reputation. Snayers often painted scenes of assaults by robbers on travelers and of soldiers plundering villages, a subject matter closely related to his military scenes. An example is the ''Flemish landscape with travellers attacked by robbers'' (Koller Zürich auction of 23 March 2018, lot 3026). The picture narrates a scene of travellers in a stage coach attempting to ward off an attack of robbers. The scene is full of action and depicts various stages of the attack including the robbers on horse back exchanging fire with the victims, one man already down flat on the ground being robbed and a woman pleading with a robber who is pointing at her.Peter Snayers, ''Flemish landscape with travellers attacked by robbers''
at Koller Zürich auction of 23 March 2018
p. 30
at Dorotheum He also collaborated with Rubens. In his collaborations with landscape painters, Snayers was responsible for the figures and his collaborators for the landscapes and cityscapes. He collaborated with Joos de Momper principally between 1613 and 1620.
at Lempertz The collaborations with Jan Brueghel the Younger date from after 1634. An example of a collaboration with Joos de Momper is the ''View of a city canal in winter with figures, presumably in Antwerp'' (at Artcurial, Paris, 19 June 2012, lot 14). The composition shows a city street and canal covered in snow. The scene is animated by many characters going about their daily activities, children enjoying the joys of winter and merchants busy at their stalls. Rather than a topographical view, the painting provides an entertaining testimony of life in a 17th-century city in Flanders. The city depicted is possibly Antwerp.
Snayers' collaborations with
in: Bulletin Monumental Année 2008 Volume 166 Numéro 1 pp. 43–51 Marie de' Medici had been the Queen of France as the second wife of King Henry IV of France, of the House of Bourbon. Following the assassination of her husband in 1610, she acted as regent for her son, King
at the Gothenburg Museum of Art Rubens had commenced work on six when the Queen lost her power in 1630 and was forced into exile in 1631. With the loss of his buyer, Rubens was forced to stop work. Five of the paintings have survived and one is missing. The surviving pictures depicted the military feats of the King. The upper portion of the paintings showing prospects of battle scenes were completed by Peter Snayers. These scenes consist of many painstakingly detailed small figures. They contrast with Rubens' contribution in the lower part of the compositions, which consist of significantly larger figures, including King Henry IV on horseback, which fill the foreground. The figures by Rubens are rather sketchy and some art historians believe that they are unfinished. The landscape specialist
The Torre de la Parada was a hunting lodge of the Spanish king near Alejandro Vergara, ''Rubens y la Torre de la Parada''
on the Prado website Larry Silver, ''Rubens, Velazquez, and the King of Spain'', Routledge, 5 July 2017
at the
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There is no record of when Snayers died but it is believed he died in Brussels in 1667.
Work
General
Peter Snayers is mainly known as a painter of battles, military engagements, raids on villages and attacks on, or robberies of, convoys. He painted portraits of the aristocracy in Brussels and large landscapes. In addition, he created various hunting scenes and a few religious compositions. Finally, he completed a few compositions showing public processions of the guilds andcivil militia
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Stylistically, his coloring was more subdued than that of his teacher Vrancx and reflects contemporary trends in Flemish and Dutch
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painting.
War artist
Peter Snayers created large-scale historical battle scenes as well as smaller works depicting cavalry skirmishes and scenes of soldiers at rest. His historical battle scenes demonstrate a close attention to topographic accuracy. Frequently, these show a shallow foreground that recedes sharply to show a besieged town from a bird's-eye perspective. Snayers paid particular attention to rendering the battle scenes as accurately, completely and true-to-life as possible. He was not present at any of the battles which he depicted. To arrive at his realistic and accurate composition Snayers relied on official military maps, reliable war reports and artistic inventions by other artists. His artistic sources included prints byGeorg Braun
Georg Braun (also ''Brunus, Bruin''; 1541 – 10 March 1622) was a German topo-geographer. From 1572 to 1617, he edited the ''Civitates orbis terrarum,'' which contains 546 prospects, bird's-eye views and maps of cities from all around the ...
, Frans Hogenberg
Frans Hogenberg (1535–1590) was a Flemish and German painter, engraver, and mapmaker.
Hogenberg was born in Mechelen in Flanders as the son of Nicolaas Hogenberg.Jacques Callot
Jacques Callot (; – 1635) was a baroque printmaker and draftsman from the Duchy of Lorraine (an independent state on the north-eastern border of France, southwestern border of Germany and overlapping the southern Netherlands). He is an impo ...
and works by Peter Paul Rubens.L. Kelchtermans, ''Peter Snayers (1592–1667): Between Remembrance and Glorification. A Contextual Study of the Topographical Battle Paintings for the Habsburg Elite''at Brepols Snayers generally did not include in his compositions any explanatory signs, symbols or legends that would help the viewer in identifying which battle was depicted. The absence of such explanatory elements preserved the realism of the picture but also required the viewer to have prior information to understand the subject. As most of his works were commissioned by the highest military leaders in the Habsburg (Spanish and Imperial) army they would have known the scenes depicted. His large canvases clearly played a dual role: they documented the historical event and at the same time they glorified the military men who participated in the action. The compositions were painted from the point of the patron who commissioned them. Equestrian portraits of the patrons and their coats of arms were included so that their military feats were immortalized. The compositions thus justified the patrons' eminent status in society as well as their loyalty to the Habsburg court. The heroic images were also intended to serve as a model for later generations. As his works' distribution remained limited to the Spanish side, the decay of the Habsburg dynasty in the second half of the 17th century affected the artist's international reputation. Snayers often painted scenes of assaults by robbers on travelers and of soldiers plundering villages, a subject matter closely related to his military scenes. An example is the ''Flemish landscape with travellers attacked by robbers'' (Koller Zürich auction of 23 March 2018, lot 3026). The picture narrates a scene of travellers in a stage coach attempting to ward off an attack of robbers. The scene is full of action and depicts various stages of the attack including the robbers on horse back exchanging fire with the victims, one man already down flat on the ground being robbed and a woman pleading with a robber who is pointing at her.Peter Snayers, ''Flemish landscape with travellers attacked by robbers''
at Koller Zürich auction of 23 March 2018
Collaborations
As was common in 17th century artistic practice in Antwerp, Snayers often collaborated with other artists. He was a regular collaborator with landscape paintersJoos de Momper
Joos de Momper the Younger or Joost de Momper the Younger (1564February5, 1635) was a Flemish landscape painter active in Antwerp between the late 16th century and the early 17th century. Brueghel's influence is clearly evident in many of de Momp ...
, Jan Brueghel the Younger
Jan Brueghel (also Bruegel or Breughel) the Younger (, ; ; 13 September 1601 – 1 September 1678) was a Flemish Baroque painter. He was the son of Jan Brueghel the Elder, and grandson of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, both prominent painters who c ...
and Alexander Keirincx.Fischer Galerie, ''Gemälde Alter Meister Auktion'', Mittwoch, 24 November 2010 Nachmittag, Kat.-Nr. 1000–1115p. 30
at Dorotheum He also collaborated with Rubens. In his collaborations with landscape painters, Snayers was responsible for the figures and his collaborators for the landscapes and cityscapes. He collaborated with Joos de Momper principally between 1613 and 1620.
at Lempertz The collaborations with Jan Brueghel the Younger date from after 1634. An example of a collaboration with Joos de Momper is the ''View of a city canal in winter with figures, presumably in Antwerp'' (at Artcurial, Paris, 19 June 2012, lot 14). The composition shows a city street and canal covered in snow. The scene is animated by many characters going about their daily activities, children enjoying the joys of winter and merchants busy at their stalls. Rather than a topographical view, the painting provides an entertaining testimony of life in a 17th-century city in Flanders. The city depicted is possibly Antwerp.
Snayers' collaborations with Peter Paul Rubens
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (; ; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat from the Duchy of Brabant in the Southern Netherlands (modern-day Belgium). He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque traditio ...
included the never-finished cycle on the ''Life of Henry IV'' (1628–30) and the Torre de la Parada
The Torre de la Parada is a former hunting lodge that was located in present-day Monte de El Pardo in Fuencarral-El Pardo, near the Royal Palace of El Pardo, some way outside Madrid in the Sierra de Guadarrama. It was mostly destroyed by fire whe ...
series (''c''. 1637–1640). The ''Life of Henry'' series was commissioned from Rubens by Marie de' Medici
Marie de' Medici (french: link=no, Marie de Médicis, it, link=no, Maria de' Medici; 26 April 1575 – 3 July 1642) was Queen of France and Navarre as the second wife of King Henry IV of France of the House of Bourbon, and Regent of the Kingdom ...
in February 1622 together with a series of paintings about her own life. The two series were intended to decorate the Luxembourg Palace
The Luxembourg Palace (french: Palais du Luxembourg, ) is at 15 Rue de Vaugirard in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. It was originally built (1615–1645) to the designs of the French architect Salomon de Brosse to be the royal residence of the ...
, her new dwellings in Paris that were then under construction.Sara Galletti, ''Rubens et la galerie de Henri IV au palais du Luxembourg (1628–1630)''in: Bulletin Monumental Année 2008 Volume 166 Numéro 1 pp. 43–51 Marie de' Medici had been the Queen of France as the second wife of King Henry IV of France, of the House of Bourbon. Following the assassination of her husband in 1610, she acted as regent for her son, King
Louis XIII of France
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, until he came of age. The series on the life of the Queen was finished in 1625 and exhibited in the western gallery of the Luxembourg Palace. The series on the life of Henry IV was intended to be displayed in the eastern gallery of the Luxembourg Palace. Rubens worked on the Life of Henry IV from 1628 to 1630. Of the planned 24 pictures, 16 would depict the key battles in which the king himself had participated.Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577 – 1640), ''Henry IV of France at the Siege of Amiens in 1597''at the Gothenburg Museum of Art Rubens had commenced work on six when the Queen lost her power in 1630 and was forced into exile in 1631. With the loss of his buyer, Rubens was forced to stop work. Five of the paintings have survived and one is missing. The surviving pictures depicted the military feats of the King. The upper portion of the paintings showing prospects of battle scenes were completed by Peter Snayers. These scenes consist of many painstakingly detailed small figures. They contrast with Rubens' contribution in the lower part of the compositions, which consist of significantly larger figures, including King Henry IV on horseback, which fill the foreground. The figures by Rubens are rather sketchy and some art historians believe that they are unfinished. The landscape specialist
Lodewijk de Vadder
Lodewijk de Vadder (1605, Grimbergen – 1655, Brussels) was a Flemish Baroque landscape painter, draughtsman, engraver and tapestry designer.Hans Devisscher. "Lodewijk de Vadder" Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. ...
was probably responsible for the large trees that appear in some of the canvases. Despite the contrast between the top half painted by Snayers and the bottom half painted by Rubens, the compositions offer a feeling of unity.
The Torre de la Parada was a hunting lodge of the Spanish king near Madrid
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. Rubens had received a commission from the Spanish king Philip IV of Spain
Philip IV ( es, Felipe, pt, Filipe; 8 April 160517 September 1665), also called the Planet King (Spanish: ''Rey Planeta''), was King of Spain from 1621 to his death and (as Philip III) King of Portugal from 1621 to 1640. Philip is remembered f ...
to create a series of paintings to decorate the hunting lodge. A majority of the paintings depicted mythological scenes largely based on the Metamorphoses
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of Ovid
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. Rubens realized this important commission with the assistance of a large number of Antwerp painters such as Jacob Jordaens
Jacob (Jacques) Jordaens (19 May 1593 – 18 October 1678) was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and tapestry designer known for his history paintings, genre scenes and portraits. After Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, he was the leading Fle ...
, Cornelis de Vos
Cornelis de Vos (1584 – 9 May 1651) was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and art dealer. He was one of the leading portrait painters in Antwerp and is best known for his sensitive portraits, in particular of children and families. He was a ...
, Jan Cossiers
Jan Cossiers (Antwerp, 15 July 1600 – Antwerp, 4 July 1671) was a Flemish painter and draughtsman. Cossiers' earliest works were Caravaggesque genre works depicting low life scenes. Later in his career he painted mostly history and religi ...
, Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert
Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert (1613 – 23 January 1654) was a Dutch Republic-born Flemish Baroque painter.
Biography
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, Theodoor van Thulden
Theodoor van Thulden (1606–12 July 1669) was a painter, draughtsman and engraver from 's-Hertogenbosch. He is mainly known for his altarpieces, mythological subjects, allegorical works and portraits. He was active in Antwerp, where he had tra ...
, Jan Boeckhorst
Jan Boeckhorst or Johann Bockhorst (c. 1604 – 21 April 1668) was a German-born Flemish Baroque painter and draughtsman. He was a versatile artist who produced history paintings, genre scenes and portraits in a style influenced by the trio ...
, Jan Baptist Borrekens
Jan Baptist Borrekens or Jan Baptist Borkens (17 May 1611 – 23 February 1675) was a Flemish painter and art dealer.J ...
, Peeter Symons
Peeter Symons or Peeter Simons (''fl'' 1629–1636) was a Flemish painter only known for his collaboration with Rubens in 1636 on the commission from the Spanish king Philip IV of Spain to create a series of mythological paintings to decorate ...
, and Jacob Peter Gowy
Jacob (; ; ar, يَعْقُوب, Yaʿqūb; gr, Ἰακώβ, Iakṓb), later given the name Israel, is regarded as a patriarch of the Israelites and is an important figure in Abrahamic religions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Isla ...
and others, who worked after Rubens' designs. Snayers was also involved in this project as a collaborator. Two large canvases showing King Philip IV at the hunt are attributed to him.on the Prado website
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