The Game Market

<p>Richard Earlom is known for his masterful engravings based on the works of contemporaneous artists and Old Masters. This richly detailed mezzotint closely relates to Frans Snyders’s <em>Still Life with Dead Game, Fruits, and Vegetables in a Market</em> (1981.182). The swooping white neck of the dead goose sprawled across the center of the table—and cutting across the center of the picture plane—mimics the similarly dramatic gesture found in Snyders’s <em>Still Life</em>, while the bountiful piles of feathers and flesh add exuberance to the scene.</p>