6040 - Jan Baptist Weenix ? / Circle Weenix, "Hunting Still Life with Pheasant and Shot Feathered Game"

Jan Baptist Weenix ? / Circle Weenix, "Hunting Still Life with Pheasant and Shot Feathered Game" Oil on canvas, relined. Dutch-style hunting still life with shot game birds, including a prominently depicted pheasant and other smaller birds, arranged on a dark stone or table top against a scenic background. On the left, the view opens up into a cloudy landscape, with dark areas of trees and foliage on the right and in the background. The composition is painted in warm shades of brown, red, ochre and green and shows the combination of game, nature and landscape view typical of Dutch hunting still life painting. Framed in a richly ornamented, gilded magnificent frame with floral corner and central ornaments. Small no. "489" on the frame. Dimensions: ca. 38 × 50 cm Technique: Oil on canvas Condition: relined Attribution: Circle Jan Baptist Weenix / Jan Weenix Condition: Restored condition according to age. Canvas relined. Significant craquelure, varnish ageing, surface soiling, retouching and partial reworking visible. Rubbing in places, minor losses of color and restored areas. Frame with traces of age and use, bumping and minor losses.