Frans Xavier Messerschmidt
Basque busts he often did depict
Famed for his'heads&faces'
often with distorted grimaces
Frans Snyders ,master of the Baroque
Stiil Life genre was his artistic stock
Fruit,vegetables&fish alive or dead
lavish in detail* on these objects he fed
*https://www.topofart.com/artists/Snyders/art-reproduction/10248/Pantry-Scene-with-Servant.php
He
raided
the pantry
and his larder
groaned
Frans Syder
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[Frans Snyders, oil on canvas 1614]
A young stag suspended by both hocks,
dead tongue lolling, brick-red,
from the corner of its mouth.
A pair of rabbits slung across the board.
A pheasant and a string of songbirds,
silent. Even the white swan, its long neck
graceful and its wing unfurled,
is not immune from Saturday display.
A cauliflower. A wicker basket
overflowing grapes and apples
that will never ripen to a fuller
red. A squash and two melons
plucked from their vines.
How many heavenly
mouthfuls, thinks the poor man
who feasts on porridge. But
for such a man with famished pockets,
our Flemish master didn’t paint
this scene.