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- Jan Weenix (1642 - 1719)
- Dead Game and Small Birds
- Netherlands
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- Date: probably c. 1695 - c. 1700
- Object Type: Painting
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Image size: 134 x 170 cm
- Object size: 175 x 208 x 12 cm
- Inv: P98
- Location: Great Gallery
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- The 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).
- The 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.