# Studies of a Fox

[View the canonical artwork record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/boel-pieter-r315303b800ce40/studies-of-a-fox-rb93a2e41e1b979>)

## Artwork

- Artist: [BOEL, Pieter](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/boel-pieter-r315303b800ce40>)
- Date: 1651-1700
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 53 x 65 cm

## Commentary

Pieter Boel was trained by Frans Snyders, a collaborator of Rubens specialising in still-lifes and animal painting. He went to Paris to join the group working under the direction of Le Brun at the Manufacture des Gobelins around 1668-69, and was asked to provide the cartoons for the animals in the foreground of tapestries. Between 1669 and 1671 he executed eighty-one studies after the birds and mammals of the menagerie of the château of Versailles.

## Related artworks

- [Hounds Assailing a Boar](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/boel-pieter-r315303b800ce40/hounds-assailing-a-boar-ra9cb1c5b630807>)
- [Hunting Still-Life with Dogs and a Dead Swan](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/boel-pieter-r315303b800ce40/hunting-still-life-with-dogs-and-a-dead-swan-rdd66a90b304e2c>)
- [Large Vanitas Still-Life \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/boel-pieter-r315303b800ce40/large-vanitas-still-life-detail-rbed74d99865ab9>)
- [Large Vanitas Still-Life](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/boel-pieter-r315303b800ce40/large-vanitas-still-life-r7c5736936ad325>)
- [Still-Life](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/boel-pieter-r315303b800ce40/still-life-r87057a10454de1>)
- [Still-Life with Dead Wild-Duck](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/boel-pieter-r315303b800ce40/still-life-with-dead-wild-duck-r36d5e0712ce52a>)
- [Still-Life with Owl](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/boel-pieter-r315303b800ce40/still-life-with-owl-reee6dcbef6c7d4>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)