SNYDERS, Frans
(b. 1579, Antwerpen, d. 1657, Antwerpen)

Lioness Attacking a Boar

c. 1620
Oil on canvas, 164 x 239 cm
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

In his earliest scenes of hunting and animals fighting, Snyders sometimes borrowed individual motifs from Rubens's works. After 1620 he began to model himself on them more specifically: his Lioness Attacking a Boar, painted around 1620, is one of the first examples of this new trend.