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Hunting and Fruit Still Life next to a Garden Vase, with a Monkey, Dog and two Doves, in the distance Rijksdorp near Wassenaar, Seat of Jacob Emmery, Baron of Wassenaar
Also titled Stilleven met dood wild en vruchten naast een tuinvaas, met een aap, een hond en twee duiven; in het verschiet Rijksdorp bij Wassenaar, een buitenverblijf van jhr. Jacob Emmery baron van Wassenaar
Jan Weenix (Amsterdam, ca. –1719)
1714
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 172 cm x width 160 cm x depth 10 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
Jan Weenix (1642 - 1719). Still life with the estate of Rijksdorp in the background, 1714. The game and the birds provide proof of a successful hunt. The estate in the background is the country house Rijksdorp, near Wassenaar. No doubt the painting was commissioned by the owner, Jonkheer Jacob Emmery van Wassenaer. Weenix was the son of Jan Baptist Weenix, a painter of landscapes and still lifes. The younger Weenix devoted himself mainly to hunt still lifes. He generally painted game and birds against the background of a garden-like landscape. Paintings of this sort were highly prized by wealthy art lovers; in this way outdoor life and the hunt could be enjoyed indoors as well. From 1800 in the National Konst-Gallery in Huis ten Bosch Palace in The Hague, the precursor of the Rijksmuseum.
