WEENIX, Jan Baptist
(b. 1621, Amsterdam, d. 1660, Doetinchem)

Dead Partridge

1650-52
Oil on canvas, 50,6 x 43,5 cm
Mauritshuis, The Hague

In his Dead Partridge Jan Baptist Weenix had been inspired by an old tradition which can be traced back as far as Jacopo de' Barbari and Lucas Cranach the Elder. Such dead animals can also be found in the paintings of Willem van Aelst.