Two roosters, a rabbit, and three small birds hang from the top of this vertical still life painting, so the heads of one white rooster and the rabbit come to rest on a dark stone ledge, about a third of the way up the composition. To our left, the tawny-brown rabbit’s nose faces us as the head rests on an azure-blue purse with silver lining. A pair of scissors is tucked behind the strap, which falls down over the ledge. To our right, the head of the rooster curves away with its red coxcomb coming toward us. A black fly rests on the rooster’s comb. The black tail feathers of another rooster…
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Still Life with Dead Game

Willem van Aelst (Dutch, 1627 - 1683)

1661

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 84.7 x 67.3 cm (33 3/8 x 26 1/2 in.)
Culture
Dutch
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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