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Still Life with Four Dead Birds
Also titled Stilleven van vier dode vogels
Elias Vonck (Amsterdam, ca. –1652)
c. 1640 - c. 1652
- Medium
- paper, deck paint, watercolor (paint), chalk
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 228 mm x width 374 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, 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
About this work
Depictions of dead birds or other game were extremely popular in the 17th century. Elias Vonck specialized in this genre and painted dozens of game still lifes. The advantage of dead birds was that the artist could draw the animals in the desired position in peace and quiet. Especially the pose of the bullfinch with its snapped neck is a recurring element in his work.
