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A Seated Monkey
Also titled Een zittend aapje
Jan Weenix (Amsterdam, ca. –1719)
before 1685
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 29.9 cm x width 25.9 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of H.B. van der Ven, The Hague
- 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
Jan Weenix painted his animal pieces in a highly pragmatic fashion. For instance, once he had depicted this little monkey accurately from life, he could use the study over and over again. The Rijksmuseum owns two game still lifes clearly showing how he went about this: one is hanging next to this work. Weenix copied the monkey, as he did in many other paintings. This studio material allows us to follow his working method.
