Jan Weenix (Amsterdam 1640/41-1719)

A landscape with a deer, a heron, a partridge, a pheasant, a magpie and other game next to a hunting rifle, a deer hunting scene beyond

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Jan Weenix (Amsterdam 1640/41-1719)
A landscape with a deer, a heron, a partridge, a pheasant, a magpie and other game next to a hunting rifle, a deer hunting scene beyond
with inscription and date 'J: Wenix · f - 1690' (on the reverse of the canvas) possibly transcribed from the original canvas
oil on canvas
193 x 167.5 cm.

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Hendrik en de Wed. van Dirk Boom, Amsterdam, 7 May 1709, lot 24 (Nlg. 255).
Private Collection, Italy, acquired by the grandfather of the present owner.

Literature

G. Hoet, Catalogus of naamlyst van Schilderyen, I, Amsterdam, 1751, p. 132, no. 21.

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Lot Essay

This new provenance, despite the lack of specific dimensions, is listed as 'A Capital Piece' and is likely to be this particular painting, as Jan Weenix rarely painted the combination of a dead deer with a heron. Another painting by Jan Weenix with a deer and a heron as well as a dog and a monkey, among other hunting trophies, is in the Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (121.8 x 158.4 cm, inv. no. 84.43.1).

We are grateful to Anke A. van Wagenberg-Ter Hoeven, Ph.D., for her help in cataloguing this lot. She is currently completing the Catalogue Raisonné on Jan Baptist Weenix and Jan Weenix.

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