Jan Weenix

Gamepiece with a Dead Heron



Jan Weenix - Gamepiece with a Dead Heron



Jan Weenix
Gamepiece with a Dead Heron
1695
134 x 111.1 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated, upper right: Jan Weeninx Fecit Ao.1695
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Rogers Fund, 1950


Literature

Collection catalogues
Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven, 2007, nr. 216 info


Provenance

?Baron Nathaniel Mayer Rothschild, Theresianumgasse, Vienna, until died 1905
his nephew, Baron Alphonse Mayer Rothschild, Theresianumgasse, Vienna, later U.S.A., by 1939–died 1942
seized by the Nazis, held at Alt Aussee and at Munich collecting point
his widow, Clarice, Baroness Rothschild, New York, returned to Austria 15 March 1948, restituted] until 1950, sold to Rosenberg & Stiebel
with Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, 1950, sold to MMA

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 50.55

Other works by Jan Weenix


Jan Weenix Landscape with Hunter and Still-Life
Landscape with Hunter and Still-Life
1697

Jan Weenix A monkey and a dog beside dead game and fruits
A monkey and a dog beside dead game and fruits
1714

Jan Weenix Portrait of a merchant
Portrait of a merchant
c. 1685-1688

Jan Weenix A Vase of Flowers
A Vase of Flowers
n.d.

Jan Weenix Game-piece: the garden of a chateau
Game-piece: the garden of a chateau