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- Jan Weenix (1642 - 1719)
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- Place of Birth: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Place of Death: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Jan Weenix (1642 - 1719)
- Flowers on a Fountain with a Peacock
- Netherlands
- c. 1700 - c.1710
- P59
- Back State Room
- Bookmarkable URLThis picture, the most spectacular of a group of thirteen paintings by Weenix in the Wallace Collection, is a particularly fine and characteristic example of his late decorative style. It demonstrates the artist’s skill in combining a theatrical mise en scène with finely observed detail. It also combines natural and architectural elements, composed in the grand manner, with dramatic lighting to obtain a monumental effect. The picture’s impressive visual power, however, derives principally from the artist’s ability for rendering different textures in paint. Its scale and quality may indicate that it once formed part of a larger commission from a prestigious patron, possibly for a set of Seasons.
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- Jan Weenix (1642 - 1719)
- Peacock, Dead Game and Monkey
- Netherlands
- c. 1700 - 1710
- P69
- Great Gallery
- Bookmarkable URLThe Wallace Collection has one of the world’s largest collections of game
pieces by Jan Weenix. They typically represent dead game displayed beside
classical urns or statues, set against distant views of lush landscapes or
formal gardens. Weenix’s paintings were initially acquired by wealthy Amsterdam burghers. At the turn of the eighteenth century his reputation attracted the attention of Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz, the German Elector Palatine in Düsseldorf, for whom he produced numerous game pieces and large still lifes from 1702 until about 1714. Four paintings by Weenix in the Great Gallery (P98, P124, P140, P182) were acquired by the 4th Marquess of Hertford from the Counts von Schönborn sale in 1867.
In this theatrical composition, Weenix depicts a peacock and a springer spaniel standing guard over a still life of a dead goose, a doe, a pheasant, partridge and a bullfinch, while a monkey steals grapes from a basket of fruit in the foreground. In the ornamental garden, a hunter carries a hare and a basket of game birds.
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- Jan Weenix (1642 - 1719)
- Hares and Pheasant at a Fountain with a Dog
- Netherlands
- 1699
- P87
- Great Gallery
- Bookmarkable URLThis picture, which shows the spoils of the chase with a view of a hunt in
the background, was described by the art historian Dr Waagen, on his trip to
Hertford (then Manchester) House in 1854, as ‘the finest specimen of the
master I know. His usual high finish is here combined with admirable keeping.
The dog is of peculiar animation’. Later he helped to choose the picture as one
of the exhibits for the Manchester Art Treasures exhibition in 1857. It had
belonged to Napoleon’s uncle, Cardinal Fesch. With typical capriciousness, the 4th Marquess of Hertford ignored it at the Fesch sale in 1845, only to acquire it later, at an unknown date.
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- Jan Weenix (1642 - 1719)
- Dead Game
- Netherlands
- 1691 or 1696
- P91
- Great Gallery
- Bookmarkable URLThe elegantly draped body of a dead hare dominates the picture. The artist
has deliberately displayed the vulnerable underbelly that is only visible when the animal is caught and killed, brilliantly observing the dead weight and the soft fur. The bowed head of the poppy and the relief on the urn, which depicts an antique sacrifice, emphasize the theme of death.
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- Jan Weenix (1642 - 1719)
- Dead Game and Small Birds
- Netherlands
- probably c. 1695 - c. 1700
- P98
- Great Gallery
- Bookmarkable URLThe accoutrements of the hunt, including a powder horn, falcon hood
and bird-call (producing a high-pitched whistle to attract birds), a hunting
bag, horn and net are combined with a still life including a hare, black grouse,
partridge and a greenfinch in front of a distant view of a hunt.
Like several other paintings by Weenix now in the Wallace Collection, this
painting belonged to a member of the German aristocracy in the eighteenth
century; it is recorded in the collection Count Lothar Franz von Schönborn, Prince-Bishop of Bamberg and Prince-Elector of Mainz.
It was acquired by the 4th Marquess of Hertford at the Schönborn sale in
1867 for the considerable sum of 41,500 francs (about £1,660), together
with three other works by the artist (Wallace Collection, P124, P140, P182).
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- Jan Weenix (1642 - 1719)
- Flowers and Fruit
- Netherlands
- 1676
- P102
- Great Gallery
- Bookmarkable URLUnlike all the other works by Jan Weenix in the Wallace Collection, this
painting is a ‘pure’ flower piece without any animals or game. It is a relatively
early work. On a stone ledge beneath a pear tree, a silver dish is laden with
grapes, a pear, a peach with a fly, and a pomegranate. A rose, a poppy,
honeysuckle, carnations and other flowers decorate the scene, to which the
artist has added the finishing touch of two butterflies.
Like several other paintings by Weenix now in the Wallace Collection, this
painting belonged in the eighteenth century to a member of the German
aristocracy, Count Friedrich Moritz of Brabeck.
The painting was acquired by Richard Wallace in 1859 on behalf of the 4th
Marquess of Hertford at the sale of Count Andreas von Stolberg in Hanover.
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- Jan Weenix (1642 - 1719)
- Dead Hare and Dog
- Netherlands
- 1717
- P103
- Great Gallery
- Bookmarkable URLIn addition to the springer spaniel and dead hare, the picture includes a living bullfinch and magpie and a dead turkey, a kingfisher, partridge and a duck. The parkland setting is embellished with various statues, including one of Ceres on the left. A late work, its weak execution betrays signs of Weenix’s increasing frailty towards the end of his life. The dog and the duck recur in Dead Goose and Peacock painted in 1718 (Jan Weenix P124) and, reversed, in Dead Game and Springer Spaniel (Jan Weenix P142), demonstrating how the artist repeated motifs in different compositions.
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- Jan Weenix (1642 - 1719)
- Dead Goose and Peacock
- Netherlands
- 1718
- P124
- Great Gallery
- Bookmarkable URLAs well as the prominently displayed goose, this large-scale vertical
composition includes a still life of partridge, pheasant and fruit with live
pigeons and a springer spaniel in a parkland setting. Signed and dated
1718, it is Weenix’s last known work, painted one year before his death. It was
probably commissioned by the Count Lothar Franz von Schönborn, Prince-
Bishop of Bamberg and Prince-Elector of Mainz to adorn his castle, Schloss
Weissenstein in Pommersfelden, built between 1711 and 1723. The
commission demonstrates the appeal of Weenix’s decorative still lifes for the
German nobility at the beginning of the eighteenth century.
This painting was acquired by the 4th Marquess of Hertford at the Schönborn
sale in 1867, along with three other works by the artist which hang in the
Great Gallery of the Wallace Collection (P98, P140 and P182).
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- Jan Weenix (1642 - 1719)
- Dead Peacock and Game
- Netherlands
- 1707
- P140
- Great Gallery
- Bookmarkable URLThe foreground is dominated by a still life of a peacock, partridge and hare. Grapes and poppies decorate the right of the picture, while a ringed plover and jay are depicted above. A classical façade is seen beyond in an ornamental park. One of the Weenixes in the Wallace Collection which belonged to Baron Schönborn in the eighteenth century (as were Jan Weenix P98, P124 and P182), it is recorded in the middle Kunst-Kabinet at Schloss Gaibach in 1746.
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- Jan Weenix (1642 - 1719)
- Dead Hare, Fruit and Monkey
- Netherlands
- 1704
- P141
- Great Gallery
- Bookmarkable URLA monkey steals grapes from a basket of fruit next to a still life of a dead hare, a cockerel, and partridge in a parkland setting. A work of high quality, the picture belonged in the eighteenth century to Graf Friedrich Moritz von Brabeck. It was acquired by Richard Wallace for his father in 1859 at the sale of Graf Andreas von Stolberg in Hanover, together with a flower piece by Weenix (Jan Weenix P102), two works by Van Royen (Van Royen P62 and P67) and a bird-piece by Hondecoeter (Hondecoeter P233). All five pictures were attributed to Weenix at the time. Such bulk buying of Weenix by Lord Hertford demonstrates the high regard in which he held the artist’s works, which probably appealed as much for their aristocratic associations as for their brilliant decorative style.
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- Jan Weenix (1642 - 1719)
- Dead Game and a Springer Spaniel
- Netherlands
- probably c. 1710 - 1715
- P142
- Great Gallery
- Bookmarkable URLIn this late work, a springer spaniel gazes longingly at a group of dead birds,
including a swan, partridge and a brace of pheasant, suspended with a hare, like a trophy, from a single-barrel flintlock fowling piece in a parkland setting.
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- Jan Weenix (1642 - 1719)
- Dead Hare and Still Life
- Netherlands
- 1692
- P174
- East Galleries III
- Bookmarkable URLA dead hare, a partridge and a pigeon are seen beside an overflowing basket of fruit. The picture is a reworking of the similar composition displayed in the Great Gallery at the Wallace Collection (P182).
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