# A Seated Monkey

- By: Jan Weenix (Amsterdam, ca. –1719)
- Date: before 1685
- Medium: canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: height 29.9 cm x width 25.9 cm
- Credit line: Gift of H.B. van der Ven, The Hague
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-5053--f6eff41c4227086f65848c1934b2a574)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/53a0c25d4904c1fa5c06e0090b73761c.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.