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Park with Country House

Jan Weenix

1670 - 1719

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

h 308cm × w 220cm × d 7.5cm × w 55.8kg

Collection

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Materials

canvas; oil paint (paint)

Object Type

painting; fragment

Subject Matter

garden; park; birds; viola, violoncello; double bass - CC - out of doors; ornamental birds: parrot; ornamental birds: peacock; dog

Acquisition Method

purchase

Acquired

1963

Notes

? commissioned for the Baring House, Northaw; their collection, until 1955;{Harmanni 2006, p. 174, note 111.} ...; the dealer Matthiesen, 1955;{Not...

Collection Type

paintings

About Jan Weenix

1621–1659 • Dutch Republic

There have been varying opinions concerning when and where the artist died, due to confusion regarding a man also named Jan Wenincx who died at Doetinchem, Gelderland, sometime before 1663. However, since it cannot be proven that this Jan Wenincx was a painter, there seems little reason to dispute Houbraken's statement that Weenix moved to the Huis ter Mey, near Utrecht, three years before his premature death in 1660 or 1661. In his sister's will of November 1663 Weenix was mentioned as deceased. Comment on works: Still Life; Genre; Ruins; Marines; Landscapes; Architecture