Artist: Jan Weenix
Date: 1708
Size: 200 x 195 cm
Museum: Calouste Gulbenkian Museum (Lisboa, Portugal)
Technique: Oil On Canvas
This large composition, in the style of late seventeenth-century decorative paintings, depicts various hunting trophies and a peacock framed by a landscape background. The inanimate position of the swan conforms to a widely used model for works of this type, and was frequent in compositions by artists such as Frans Snyders (1579-1657). In the background stands a large urn decorated with bas-reliefs. The work dates from a period, when the artist was working on a series of twelve compositions on hunting motifs commissioned by the Palatine Elector Johann Wilhem for the Castle of Bensberg (1712 to 1714).The painting is similar to various other works that the artist executed in the same spirit and which were intended to illustrate the favourite pastime of the elites, such as
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