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Four Studies of Cockatoos
Also titled Vier studies van kaketoes
Jan Weenix (Amsterdam, ca. –1719)
c. 1650 - c. 1719
- Medium
- charcoal stick, paper, watercolor (paint), chalk
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 361 mm x width 470 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
However difficult it would have been to capture birds in flight, Jan Weenix will have made studies of them in the wild. Exotic specimens, such as these different species of cockatoos, however, would probably been drawn in menageries and aviaries. In this drawing the artist used a stick of charcoal soaked in oil. This provides a more intensely black tone than ordinary black chalk, making it ideal for introducing dark accents in feathers.
