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- Jan Weenix (1642 - 1719)
- Dead Goose and Peacock
- Netherlands
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- Date: 1718
- Object Type: Painting
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Image size: 174.5 x 121.5 cm
- Object size: 209 x 159 x 12 cm
- Inv: P124
- Location: Great Gallery
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- As 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).
- As 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.