Live Auction 3028Old Masters and 19th Century Art
Jan Weenix (Amsterdam 1640/41-1719)
Lot 114

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

Closed7 May 2013

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EUR 51,900

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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.

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.

Specialist note

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.