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- Jan Weenix (1642 - 1719)
- Flowers and Fruit
- Netherlands
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- Date: 1676
- Object Type: Painting
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Image size: 123.5 x 102 cm
- Object size: 161 x 138 x 12 cm
- Inv: P102
- Location: Great Gallery
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- Unlike 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.
- Unlike 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.