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Still Life with Peacocks
Also titled Stilleven met pauwen
Rembrandt van Rijn (Leiden, 1606–1669)
c. 1639
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 145 cm x width 135.5 cm
- 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
In Rembrandt’s time, peacocks were eaten by the well-to-do: the meat was incorporated into meat pies, among other dishes. Immediately after being killed, the birds were hung to bleed out, as Rembrandt shows us in this storeroom. He was doubtless captivated by the plumage’s splendid marks, the riot of colours: blue, green and yellow ochre.
