Jan Fyt [SEP] place of death
Jan Fyt
Jan Fijt or Johannes Fijt (or Fyt) (15 March 1611 – 11 September 1661) was a Flemish Baroque painter, draughtsman and etcher. One of the leading animaliers of the 17th century, he was known for his refined depictions of animals and his lush hunting pieces.
Life.
Jan Fyt was born in Antwerp as the son of a wealthy merchant. He was baptized on 15 March 1611. In 1621 he was registered at the Antwerp Guild of St Luke as an apprentice of Hans van
or animals were used in cartoons for tapestry in which work of several painters was combined, woven at the Savonnerie and at the Gobelins ("Portière de Diane", Louvre). For the Gobelins he designed the series of tapestries called "Les Nouvelles Indes".
At his death, in Paris, he left a considerable amount of work in his studio (where his nephew Nicolas had trained), which included studies of animals and plants as well as some fox-hunting sketches by Jan Fyt. In 1784,