Gamepiece with a Dead Heron

Likely destined for a townhouse, this decorative painting evokes the bounty of the hunt on a country estate. A heron and other dead birds spill out of a game bag next to a large neoclassical urn. The animal trophies figure as a natural feature of the courtly landscape, while the tumult of the hunt remains offstage. In the background, aristocratic figures stroll at the edge of an ornamental pond, complete with gliding swans.

This painting was seized by the Nazis from the collection of Baron Alphonse Mayer Rothschild (1878–1942) in Vienna and restituted to his widow, Baroness Clarice Rothschild, in 1948.

Price: $12$451

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Title: Gamepiece with a Dead Heron

Artist: Jan Weenix (Dutch, Amsterdam ca. 1641?–1719 Amsterdam)

Date: 1695

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 52 3/4 x 43 3/4 in. (134 x 111.1 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1950

Accession Number: 50.55

size specs

11 x 14: 27.9 x 35.6cm, 16 x 20: 41 x 51cm, 20 x 30: 51 x 76cm, 30 x 40: 76.2 x 101.6cm, 40 x 50 101,6 x 127cm, A0: 84.1 x 118.9cm, A1: 59.4 x 84.1cm, A2: 42 x 59.4cm, A3: 29.7 x 42cm, A4: 21 x 29.7cm

Material

Canson Lustre 310gsm, Canson Photographique 310gsm, High Gloss Film 165gsm

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